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2023 Piping Plover Breeding Season Summaries for Ontario and Nova Scotia
The 2023 nesting season has been an unusual one for Birds Canada’s Piping Plover Monitoring and Stewardship Programs in Ontario and Nova Scotia. Read on to learn about the successes, failures, and the unfolding drama.
Marine Bird Mass Mortality Events as an Indicator of the Impacts of Ocean Warming
In a groundbreaking study spanning 29 years from 1993 to 2021, researchers have utilized large-scale beached bird monitoring program data to shed light on the mortality events of marine birds in the Northeast Pacific & Alaska.
Conference: Birds as Bridges
Join us at Birds as Bridges – the joint conference of the American Ornithological Society and the Society of Canadian Ornithologists, August 8 – 12, in London, Ontario
Community Lends a Helping… Green Thumb? In Effort To Promote Biodiversity
If you were asked to go outside right now and find an insect, where would you go? Gardening is one of the finest examples there is to show just how connected we all are – to our neighbours, to our waters, and to our entire ecosystem.
Abandoned critically endangered shorebird eggs given a fighting chance in captive rearing
As Ontario’s endangered Piping Plover population continues to decline, Birds Canada and partners have taken extraordinary steps to save nearly 50% of Ontario’s abandoned eggs this year.
Whooping Cranes? More like Dancing Cranes!
Who knew birds were such talented dancers? Mark Bidwell and John Conkin certainly did.
