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03 Jun Resighting Survey for Banded Ipswich Sparrows on Sable Island, Spring 2020

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In a study of life stages and survival, researchers are banding sparrows on Sable Island and on the Delmarva Peninsula with combinations of coloured plastic leg bands that identify individual birds....

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10 May Sable Island Notes, Late March to mid-April 2020 – Zoe Lucas

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Since I was on the island when the national parks were closed, I was able to stay and continue work on some of the Institute’s projects. For the island itself, it has been a mostly normal spring so far....

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02 May The Shifting Sands of Sable – Devon James Gillighan, February 2020

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Since childhood I have been fascinated by islands. In summer 2018, I had the privilege and honour of visiting an island unlike any other. Sable Island is solitary, sensitive, and sublime in every sense....

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27 Apr Wind, Waves and Sand – Jordan Eamer, April 2020

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Having studied coastal dune geomorphology, how perfect to end up in a place like Sable, an island entirely consisting of dunes, where sand, in wild and weird ways, shapes, and is shaped by, the landscape....

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27 Apr Gina’s Sable Island Photoblog, October 2016 – January 2017

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Gina Little, who began working on Sable in 2007, had been taking photos of the island long before her first Sable Photoblog was posted on the Institute’s website. Here are some of those earlier images....

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24 Apr Sable In Words – Contest Winners, April 2020

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Announcing the winners! Thanks to everyone who submitted stories to the contest. All were interesting to read, and each provided unique perspectives and insights, and some surprises. We’ll do this again!...

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15 Apr Sable Island, Just a Wink in the Sea – Greg Stroud, April 2020

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My aunt warned me that if I didn’t behave I’d be shipped off to Sable Island. Years later when I told her I was going to work on the island, she looked at me very seriously and said, “What did you do?”...

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05 Feb Island of Sand and Horses – Allison Taylor, February 2020

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A winter on Sable Island, working with the Meteorological Service for 3.5 months, from November 2015 to February 2016. The wind seems constant. You wouldn’t think sand moving over sand could be that noisy....

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14 Jan A Young Artist’s Sable Island Landscapes

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Three watercolour paintings by 12-year-old Laurie illustrate features of the island’s landscape and wildlife, expressing a sense of the energy of sand dunes, waves, grey seals, ponds and horses....

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10 Jan A Trip to Sable Island Aboard the RCGS Resolute – John Merrick, 2019

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It was too good an opportunity to pass up! One Ocean Tours was advertising an adventure excursion around the Gulf of St Lawrence, but the highlight for us was the opportunity for a trip to Sable Island....

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The Sable Island Institute is a multidisciplinary organization developing and conducting a wide range of Sable Island programs, including environmental monitoring, biodiversity surveys, arts and culture projects, and public outreach. The Institute is expanding on the roles of the Friends of the Green Horse Society and will continue the Society’s key initiatives. The Sable Island Institute is registered under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act S.C. 2009, c.23.

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