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Our course “Birding for Beginners” is now available on our new educational website! This free self-guided course will help you develop the foundational skills needed to start birding. You’ll learn about helpful tools like binoculars, guidebooks, and learn how to start identifying birds using size, shape, behaviours, habitats, colors, and sounds. The best part is that you’ll learn these skills with some of the most common birds found across Canada.

We’d like to take a moment to remember Dr. Bruce Falls and reflect on his extraordinary contributions to conservation and the profound influence he had over decades. His journey from the halls of academia to the forefront of environmental stewardship underscores a lifetime devoted to understanding, appreciating and conserving our natural world.

Allison Manthorne, Birds Canada’s Aerial Insectivore Conservation Strategist, tells us more about a special project to conserve nesting habitat for Bank Swallows in New Brunswick as well as how we can all help collect data and protect aerial insectivores across the country.

It’s May. A time of new arrivals, bird song and the undisputed high point of the birding calendar. Migratory songbirds are in trouble, but watching birds can actually help us take better care of them. Get outside, go birding, and learn more about how to help birds!

If birds nest in nuclear power facilities, do they get superpowers? Not quite, but seeing over 2500 Chimney Swifts roosting in the chimney of a decommissioned nuclear reactor sure is super! Read about the power of considering wildlife habitat in important decision-making.

The grasslands of the Canadian Prairies are a world of weird and wonderful birds. However, the habitat that these birds depend on are one of the most threatened and under-protected biomes on the planet. To address this challenge, Birds Canada has been working to develop the Bird-friendliness Index (BFI).

Behind the scenes, Birds Canada’s SwiftWatch programs are working with municipalities across provinces to find a solution for the rapid loss of chimneys used by Chimney Swifts – a Threatened Species in Canada. 

This spring, Birds Canada BC staff and volunteers are gearing up to survey Long-billed Curlews. The Long-billed Curlew is one of the first birds to arrive in Canada each spring.