Featured News Stories

We hope you enjoy the Spring 2021 issue (no. 95) of BirdWatch Canada, our quarterly members’ magazine. If you receive BirdWatch by mail, keep an eye out for your copy in March!

Birds on the Niagara (BON) international winter bird celebration went virtual for 2021! What better way to celebrate midwinter along the Niagara River in Southern Ontario and Western New York?

We welcome both beginning and experienced birders interested in participating in the Nocturnal Owl Survey. The survey is particularly suited to new birders because there are only a few owl calls to learn and relatively little time is required.

The gifts you make through Birds Canada support important work for birds. We’re pleased to announce this year’s Baillie Fund grant recipients!

A chance encounter with an owl can spark an interest in birds and nature that lasts a lifetime! We benefit from these experiences, but, if we’re not mindful, the impact on the owls can be negative one.

Thank-you to the prize donors, participants, and sponsors who made Birds Canada’s 2020 Great Canadian Birdathon a success. All of your hard work and generosity will benefit Canada’s wild birds in many, many ways, and is deeply appreciated.

Birds Canada and WildResearch are excited to announce our new BC Marsh Monitoring Program!

Thank you to all who shared their excellent captures for the Winter Birds Photo Contest held by Birds Canada in December 2020 and January 2021. The large number of submissions suggests that birds are helping many of us make the best of the winter.

Birds Canada has produced an easy-to-use Grassland Conservation Incentives Guide to centralize all incentives available to producers and landowners to conserve, enhance or restore grasslands.

The Common Nighthawk is one of the Western Hemisphere’s most widespread migratory birds, breeding from coast to coast, and from the Yukon all the way down to Panama. Yet, we know surprisingly little about them, especially their lives after they leave their breeding sites.