To a Canadian birder, a winter memory can be a fractious thing. Birds that you can identify in a nano second in the fall, return in the spring and have you wondering what they are. It can be particularly difficult when they’re out of context, ie not in the habitat where you …
With the spring return of the birds to Canada, we are once again called on to test our winter memories. How much have we forgotten about identifying our feathered friends while they were gone for the winter? One of the more challenging groups of birds to identify, and a popular …
This is the third in a series of weekly posts on birds at risk in Canada. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) lists 73 bird species as endangered, threatened or of special concern. Virtually unknown until the past few decades, these small birds have the …