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A Year of Progress: Spotlighting Three New Key Biodiversity Areas and Updates on Canada’s KBA Initiative

A Year of Progress: Spotlighting Three New Key Biodiversity Areas and Updates on Canada’s KBA Initiative

Introducing three key biodiversity areas (KBAs) in Canada: K’ómoks, Grasslands National Park, and Baccalieu Island. These sites are critical for species like the Surf Scoter, Greater Sage-Grouse, and Leach’s Storm-Petrel. Despite ongoing conservation efforts, threats such as habitat destruction and climate change persist. Continued stewardship and monitoring are crucial for preserving these vital habitats.

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Searching for the Chestnut-collared Longspur: Visiting the Grassland Home of Our 2025 Avian Ambassador

Searching for the Chestnut-collared Longspur: Visiting the Grassland Home of Our 2025 Avian Ambassador

Each spring, one of Canada’s most spectacular natural sights can be witnessed in the shortgrass prairies at dawn—the Chestnut-collared Longspur’s captivating display flight. This once-common grassland songbird is a powerful symbol of what’s at stake. Our feature story for this month takes us on a journey to southern Alberta as we get to know this important species, Birds Canada’s 2025 Avian Ambassador, the Chestnut-collared Longspur.

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Flock Together for the Great Backyard Bird Count

Flock Together for the Great Backyard Bird Count

Share in the joy of birds during the annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) and help make your community stronger for you and the birds. 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 declining, increasing, or holding steady in the face of habitat loss, climate change, and other threats.

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Happy World Wetlands Day: Protecting wetlands for our common future

Happy World Wetlands Day: Protecting wetlands for our common future

Wetlands provide food and shelter for numerous birds year-round: Whimbrels in west coast estuaries, Bonaparte’s Gulls on marshy lakes in the boreal, pelicans on prairie potholes, bitterns in Great Lakes coastal marshes, rails in wetlands along the St. Lawrence, sandpipers on Bay of Fundy mudflats, and on and on. Many bird species spend some or all of their lives in a wetland, so protecting them has never been more important

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