HISTORICAL INFORMATION

1991 - Jacques Ibarzabal and Adalbert Bouchard confirm the presence of a raptor migration corridor over the Dunes of Tadoussac.

1992 - The first systematic visual counts: a total of 7 000 raptors recorded.

1993 - Creation of the Parc national du Saguenay. The start of daily raptor counts over the entire migration period (i.e., August to December).
1995 - The first counting and banding of migrating songbirds.
1996 - The Observatoire d’oiseaux de Tadoussac, with Jacques Ibarzabal as the founding director, becomes a research branch of Explos-Nature. The first capture of Northern Saw-whet and Boreal Owls.
2003 - Formation of the Scientific Committee and the Committee of Promoters, and the establishment of the Friends of the OOT Fund. Bruno Drolet takes over as director of the OOT.
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
 
  • 1993-94 - The highlighting of the importance of Tadoussac as a strategic point in Québec for the monitoring of migrating raptors.
  • 1995-2000 - Development of songbird and woodpecker banding programs.
  • 1997 - Implementation of a standardized banding program for Northern Saw-whet and Boreal Owls followed, in 2001, by a similar program for woodpeckers.
  • 2000 - Co-organization of a bird symposium as part of the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of the founding of Tadoussac.
  • 2002 - Demonstration of the quality of the migration signal detected at Tadoussac and its potential use as reference database for eastern North America.