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Category: Birds

Curlew and Curl Up with a Book: Top 6 Books About Birds for Bird Lovers

September 19, 2024–Sandra Dosen

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Birds•Recreation and Events

Woman's Day - Birds of America, 1963 © Carol VanHook CC BY-SA 2.0

Birds play a vital role in the health and well-being of people and the planet. Among other benefits, they: I could go on. To celebrate our feathered friends and to ...

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Help Conserve Ontario’s Birds: Get Involved in the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas

August 21, 2024–Erik Van Den Kieboom

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Birds•Community Science•How To

Piping plover and chick © Ian K. Barker

The Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas is an ambitious project that maps the breeding distribution of birds in Ontario. This knowledge will help improve conservation initiatives to protect Ontario’s breeding birds ...

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Make a Difference for Bird Conservation: Explore the Enchanting Boreal Forest This Summer

June 26, 2024–Roxane Filion

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Birds•Boreal Forest•Community Science

Setting up a digital unit to record a 5-min point count. This is an easy and fun way for birders of all levels of experience to contribute to the Atlas © Gary Dowe

Northern Ontario’s boreal forest is known as the songbird nursery. Anyone who has heard its incredible dawn chorus would agree that it is a captivating place to be on a ...

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Top 10 Places to Atlas in 2024

March 22, 2024–Claire Atherton

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Conservation News•Birds•Community Science•Wild Species

Blackburnian warbler © Mark Duchene

The Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas is a multi-year project that aims to map all of Ontario’s breeding birds. Over 5 years, hundreds of volunteers search for evidence of breeding birds ...

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Capturing Avian Artistry through Interlacing Technique and Selective Framing

February 7, 2024–Raghuvamsh Chavali

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Birds•Recreation and Events

Abstract Bird Photography 11 © Raghuvamsh Chavali

Worldwide, nature lovers, ornithologists, and photographers are always fascinated by the world of avian flight. Birds’ varied and complex flying patterns have a remarkable power to awe. This article takes ...

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