© Lora Denis
Window-strike mortality, black-and-white warbler © normanack CC BY 2.0
I was walking out of the grocery one day while checking my phone when I almost walked into a pair of glass doors. They are quite hard to see when you’re not paying attention. Now, imagine what that glass looks like when heading towards it at speeds much faster than walking. That’s the issue many ...
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 take your avian appreciation to new heights, read on to discover books that explore different types of birds, bird behaviour, the ingenuity of birds and ...
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 and their habitat. The only caveat is that there are not enough researchers to cover the entire province. However, through community science, the atlas has ...
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 summer morning. This is where an important portion of the beloved songbirds that delight birders each spring in southern Ontario go to nest. We are ...
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 within 10 x 10 kilometre squares. Our goal is to have all the squares in southern Ontario surveyed by 2025, and a strong sample of ...
Laurel Creek Conservation Area © Carl Hiebert / Grand River Conservation Authority