Wildlife Watching

Golden-crowned kinglet. Photo by Jim Flynn.

A list of the organizations and people to contact when you are Wildlife Watching.

Here's who to contact:

Amphibian Road Call Count
Backyard Frog Survey
Forest Bird Monitoring Program
Ontario Shorebird Survey
Contact the Canadian Wildlife Service/Environment Canada. www.on.ec.gc.ca/wildlife/wild-watchers/htgi.html

Bird banding and Bird Observatories (and the Migration Monitoring Network) Contact the Ontario Bird Banding Association
http://sites.netscape.net/tntcomm1/obba/OBBA.htm

Breeding Bird Survey
Canadian Lakes Loon Survey
Christmas Bird Count
Great Lakes Marsh Monitoring Program
Ontario Nocturnal Owl Survey
Ontario Birds at Risk (which includes the Red-shouldered Hawk and Spring Woodpecker Survey, Loggerhead Shrike Survey and other rare species projects)
Project FeederWatch
Contact Bird Studies Canada www.bsc-eoc.org
or by phone at (519) 586-3531 or 1-800-448-2473

FrogWatch Ontario
http://eqb-dqe.cciw.ca/emanops/frogwatch/ontario/intro.html
or by phone at (905) 336-4418

Hawk Watching
Ontario has several organized hawk watches. For more information go to Environment Canada www.on.ec.gc.ca/wildlife/wild-watchers/htgi.html or The Hawk Migration Association of North America www.hmana.org/

IceWatch
LichenWatch
WormWatch
Contact Ecological Monitoring & Assessment Network/Environment Canada by phone at (905) 336-4410 or by email at eman@cciw.ca

North American Butterfly Association "1st of July" counts
Contact Bob Bowles at (705) 325-3149
or the North American Butterfly Association www.naba.org/counts/ec.html#10

Odonate count (dragonflies and damselflies)
Contact Colin Jones at the Ministry of Natural Resources at (705) 755-2166 or by email colin.jones@mnr.gov.on.ca

Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas Project
Check out Birds Ontario www.birdsontario.org
or call Nicole Kopysh at (519) 826-2092

Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO)
ONTBIRDS is the Ontario Field Ornithologists’ (OFO) free electronic mailing list service that notifies birders of new Ontario bird sightings of interest ofo@interlog.com All Ontario birding hotlines, major birding hotspots and hawkwatches have been invited to post their regular updates and, especially, rare bird reports, to ONTBIRDS. Visit the OFO website at www.ofo.ca for more information.

Trout lily. Photo by M.J. Thomson.

Ontario Herpetofaunal Summary
Check out the Natural Heritage Information Centre, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources www.mnr.gov.on.ca/MNR/nhic/nhic.html or call (705) 755-2159

Ontario Nest Records Scheme
Contact the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at the Royal Ontario Museum www.rom.on.ca/biodiversity/cbcb/cbnorth.html
or by phone at (416) 586-5523

Ontario Tree Atlas Project
Contact The Arboretum, University of Guelph www.uoguelph.ca/~rguthrie/ or by phone at (519) 824-4120, ext. 3615

Peregrine Falcon Monitoring
Contact Ted Armstrong, Northwest Region, OMNR at (807) 475-1127

PlantWatch
Contact the Devonian Botanic Garden, University of Alberta, Edmonton www.devonian.ualberta.ca/pwatch/index.htm
or by phone at (780) 987-3054