North Country Report – Loon Preservation Committee

Monthly Loon Activity Report

Please fill out this form once per month, at the end of the month, from May (or whenever you arrive at the lake for the summer) through August. Please use this form to summarize the activity that you have seen on your loon territory over the course of the month—how many loons do you think are residents on your loon territory? We typically think of ‘resident’ loons as those that are present on the territory more often than not. This form is intended to give our biologist a sense of how many loons your territory has on an average day.

If you have any questions, please email northcountry@loon.org or volunteers@loon.org.

Thank you for your important contributions to our loon monitoring!

Loon Volunteer Monthly Report: North Country

This form is designed for volunteers on lakes located in the North Country of NH to submit monthly loon observations from a specific loon territory. The information that you provide on this form should represent resident loon activity—the numbers should reflect how many loons live on your territory, to the best of your knowledge. Please do not include visiting loons—those you've seen only occasionally—in the data submitted on this form.

Your Information

Name(Required)

First Last

Lake Information

Lake Name(Required)

Please select the water body that you are submitting observations from.

Territory Name(Required)

Back Lake has two loon monitoring territories. Please refer to the map above and select the territory you are reporting observations from.

Territory

First Connecticut Lake is divided into eight loon monitoring territories. Please select the territory you are submitting observations for.

Territory Name

Second Connecticut Lake has three loon monitoring territories. Please refer to the map above and select the territory that you are submitting observations from.

Territory Name

Lake Francis has five monitoring territories. Please refer to the map above and select the territory you are submitting observations from.

Territory

Pontook Reservoir has two loon territories. Please refer to the map above and select the loon territory you are reporting observations from.

Month

Please enter the month you are submitting data for.

Please indicate the frequency of your observations this month.

How often did you observe the loons this month?

Loon Population Information

Number of paired adult loons(Required)

Please enter the number of adult loons on your loon territory that were part of a pair. One loon pair= 2 paired adults. Please include only resident loons (those that were present on the territory more often than not). If your territory does not have a resident pair, enter '0'. Most territories should have either 0 or 2 paired adult loons.

Number of unpaired adults(Required)

Please enter the number of loons that were on your territory that were NOT part of a pair. Please include only those loons that you consider to be residents on your territory (birds that were present on your territory more often than not). If your territory did not have any unpaired adult loons, please enter '0'.

Number of Loon Chicks

Were loon chicks (young of the year) present on your loon territory this past month? If so, how many?

Did you see any banded loons on your territory?

LPC has banded many loons throughout New Hampshire. Bands are placed on the loon's legs—you may see them while a loon is preening, or if it approaches you closely.

Please describe the colors that you saw

If you know which leg you saw which colors on, please include that information as well. LPC usually puts 2 bands on each leg.

Please list any other information you think we should know about the loon activity on your lake over the past month.

This can include things like: Do other loons visit your lake regularly, but not often enough to be considered residents on your lake? If so, how many visitors are you seeing, and how often are they on your lake? Did any hatched chicks disappear? If so, what do you think was the cause of their disappearance? Are there any threats to the loons on your territory that we should be aware of? Etc.

Nesting Information

Number of Nesting Pairs(Required)

How many pairs of loons have nested on your territory to date this season (April-present), to the best of your knowledge?

Please provide more information about how many pairs of loons nested on your territory.

Number of Nest Attempts(Required)

Please list how many nest attempts you are aware of on your territory from April-present. Note: Nest building alone is not considered a nest attempt—the loons must sit on the nest consistently for at least 3 days in order to count .

Nest attempt check

It is highly unusual for a loon pair to nest 5 times or more within a single season. Are you certain all of these nest attempts were legitimate (that at least one egg was laid for each nest attempt)? Please provide any relevant information about each nest attempt.

Your data indicates that you have seen one or more nest attempts on your loon territory this year. Have you submitted a nest form for each of these nest attempts?

We ask that volunteers fill out our 'Report a Loon Nest' form whenever they find a new loon nest. Have you submitted a nest form for the nest(s) that you have observed on your territory? If you have not, please visit loon.org/winnipesaukee and click on the link under 'Report a Loon Nest'. Thank you!

Management Information

Number of Loon Rafts Floated

How many loon nest rafts were floated on your territory this year?

Were nest signs floated to protect a loon nest on your territory this year (May-present)?

How many signs were floated to protect the loon nest?

Was a rope line floated to protect a loon nest on your territory this summer (May-present)?

Images

If you would like to share any photos of loons that you took this past month, please do so here.

Max. file size: 512 MB.

How many hours have you spent volunteering with LPC this month?(Required)

This can be a rough estimate. Please include any time that you spent observing loons, communicating with LPC biologists, floating rafts or signs, meeting with LPC biologists, etc.

Please enter a number from 0 to 200.

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