Today is an extraordinary day for the Boreal forest in Canada – loggers and environmentalists working together. Long-time enemies with conflicting agendas have found a way to make conservation work, while still allowing an industry that has shaped our country to continue. The saving of millions of hectares of the …
Skilled birders are needed to run Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) routes at locations across Canada. Volunteers must have excellent ‘birding by ear’ skills, have a reliable vehicle, and be able to survey their route in June or early July for several years. In the Maritimes, BBS routes are available in …
Project Nest Watch is a popular, long-running program from Bird Studies Canada. Nest Watch involves volunteers in the long-term monitoring of bird nesting activity across Canada. Birds are good indicators of the health of their habitats and the ecosystems in which they live. By gathering data that follows the health …
If any one bird species could be said to represent the boreal forest, it would have to be the Grey Jay Perisoreus canadensis. These appealing little thieves are commonly known as whiskey jacks or camp robbers, and are found only in the boreal and sub-alpine forests of North America. Non-migratory …
The 2010 Doug Tarry Natural History Fund’s Young Ornithologists’ Workshop will be held at Long Point Bird Observatory near Port Rowan, Ontario, from Friday, July 30 to Sunday, August 8. Participants will receive hands-on field ornithology training, including bird banding, censusing, field identification, birding trips, preparing museum specimens, guest lectures, …
In an effort to determine where Piping Plovers wintering in The Bahamas are staging during migration and breeding, 57 birds were uniquely colour-marked this winter. The project was done for Environment Canada by Sidney Maddock and Peter Doherty, with help from The Bahamas National Trust. Each bird has a black …
Eurasian collared-doves historically occurred only in and around India. A massive expansion in the 1600’s brought them to Turkey and the Balkans, and from there they spread across Europe. First released in the Bahamas in the mid-1970’s, they made their way to Florida and spread quickly across the North American …
The Mute Swan, a native of Eurasia, was introduced to this continent from the mid-1800s through the early 1900s. Due to their graceful appearance on water, these swans were imported to many areas of North America as an adornment to city parks and large estates. All North American Mute Swan …
Birds are an important part of the environment in which we live. By monitoring bird distribution and habitat use, we can assess the health of the environments they inhabit (in essence, our environment). The Prairie provinces support hundreds of bird species during the breeding season, and we need to collect …
BirdLife International initiated the Important Bird Area (IBA) program in the mid-1980’s. The main goals of the program were to identify, conserve and monitor the world’s most critical places for bird populations. IBAs are priority areas where threatened, restricted-range, biome-restricted and congregatory birds occur. Birds are the best documented, and …