Bird News Kitchener, ON bakery fined $60,000 for depositing oil harmful to migratory birds Despite conservation season, snow goose numbers continue to grow BC birders flock to see first-ever sighting in BC interior of a little blue heron Rare white-winged dove spotted in Manitoba Mammal News Alberta field study focuses …
Bird News Scientists in Nova Scotia are working to protect roseate tern habitats. Syncrude blames freezing rain for the most recent duck deaths at tailings pond. More than 390 birds have now died after landing on the tailings ponds owned by Syncrude and Suncor. The whooping crane population has rebounded …
Bird News Researchers who have tagged Canadian gannets say up to a third of the population is threatened by the BP oil spill. An ATV rider in New Brunswick has been fined $500 for disturbing endangered piping plovers’ nesting grounds. A jet taking off from Edmonton airport had to return …
Bird News A Canada goose with a natural feather disorder is being helped by caring man in ON. A poacher in New Brunswick has received heavy fines and had his licence suspended for hunting black scoters. Sightings of turkey vultures are getting more common in New Brunswick. The band-tailed pigeon …
Bird News Researchers tracking the migration of a red knot have documented an annual flight of 26,700 km between its Argentinian wintering grounds and breeding site in Nunavut. Levels of toxic mercury in the eggs of water birds downstream from the oilsands have grown by 50 per cent over the …
Bird News The Sprague’s pipit, a threatened species in Canada for 10 years, will not get help in the US because “federal wildlife officials are too busy saving other species to conduct the studies and hold meetings necessary to get them on the U.S. endangered species list.” Four years overdue, …
Bird News Sea bird experts from around the world are meeting in Victoria, BC next week for the first World Sea Bird Conference, focusing on science, conservation and information sharing. The first-ever active sandhill crane nest discovered in New Brunswick this spring may indicate a northeastern expansion of the population. …
Bird News A research project on Vancouver Island is working on the problem of estuarine marshes being damaged by expanding populations of Canada Geese. An innovative restoration technique for the Lewis’s woodpecker is underway in BC, with workers creating rot in the heart of healthy trees so the bird will …
Bird News Nova Scotia Piping plovers’ annual migration patterns are changing, with later nesting times making them more prone to disturbances. Experts are worried that the white pelican, a threatened species in Ontario, may not survive after their winter migration to the Gulf of Mexico. The Ministry of Natural Resources …
Bird News Nova Scotia will start its cull of Canada geese early this year because populations have grown rapidly since the birds were introduced from Ontario. St. Lawrence Islands National park has three active bald eagle nests that have produced about 40 chicks since eagles returned several years ago. Four …