Select Page

Media Releases

OCT 16, 2023 - IT’S TIME TO HELP THE BIRDS YOU LOVE!

Port Rowan, ON—Your observations of birds out your window can really help the conservation of Canada’s birds.  Project FeederWatch is a North America wide winter survey of backyard birds.

SeP 22, 2023 - Enhanced Community and Collaboration Space at Birds Canada Headquarters

Port Rowan, ON – On Friday, local MPP Bobbi Ann Brady met with Birds Canada to celebrate a $144,700 Capital grant awarded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) to support critical infrastructure and technology upgrades to the Birds Canada Headquarters in Port Rowan, Ontario.

Sep 21, 2023 - 17 environmental groups present plan for nature ahead of World Biodiversity Summit

Traditional unceded Algonquin Territory/Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian environmental groups presented shared recommendations to the federal government on how Canada must act urgently to meet its global commitments to protect and restore nature under the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) agreed to at COP 15 in Montreal last December.

Apr 21, 2023 - Federal Government fails to protect birds and biodiversity in Fraser River Delta with approval of Roberts Bank Terminal 2

Port Rowan, ON  – The federal government has approved a proposal to build a second container ship terminal in the Port of Vancouver, including the Fraser River. According to the Government of Canada’s own experts and an Independent Review Panel, the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project will lead to continued declines in species.

paddle boarders with the Toronto skyline in the background

APR 19, 2023 - LARGEST PROVINCIAL CITIZEN SCIENCE EFFORT UNDERWAY TO HELP BIRDS AND BIODIVERSITY IN ONTARIO

Port Rowan, ON – Birds Canada and partners are launching the third season of the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas-3 project (Atlas-3), the largest province-wide Citizen Science effort which surveys all species breeding in Ontario. Volunteer birders, of all skill-levels, can help collect critical data to inform conservation actions to better protect birds and biodiversity.

paddle boarders with the Toronto skyline in the background

JAN 23, 2023 - Great Backyard Bird Count 2023: JOIN THE COUNT: GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR BIRDS

Port Rowan, ON  – Bird and nature lovers everywhere unite in the effort to tally as many of the world’s bird species as possible over these four days. Combined with other bird counts, GBBC results help create a clearer picture of how birds are faring – whether individual species are are declining, increasing, or holding steady in the face of habitat loss, climate change, and other threats.