Congratulations to Dr. Emily McKinnon and former Love Lab MSc student Christie Macdonald in having their paper entitled “Spring and fall migration phenology of an Arctic-breeding passerine” accepted for publication in the Journal of Ornithology. Using a combination of long-term banding data and recent migratory data from small, light-level geolocators, Emily and Christie examined sex- and age-specific patterns of migratory and breeding site arrival phenology in Snow buntings. Banding data indicate that during fall migration, hatch-year birds precede adults, and adult males tend to precede adult females; however, there still remained extensive inter-annual variation. Interestingly, males and females tracked directly with geolocators arrived at winter sites at approximately the same time. During early spring migration, buntings exhibited moderate protandry, where after-second-year males preceded all other age-sex classes by ~6 days, on average. These results provide key baseline data for monitoring ongoing changes in migration phenology of this important Arctic-breeding songbird, as climate change effects become more pronounced across temperate and Arctic regions.