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Bird Studies Canada conducts research nationally through volunteer-based surveys such as the Canadian Lakes Loon Survey and Project FeederWatch. In addition, it coordinates the analysis of data collected by a growing network of observatories monitoring migratory birds across Canada 

This multi-year project tests the hypothesis that bird communities in landscapes managed for timber output are similar to those in landscapes subject only to natural disturbances.

  • Canadian Lakes Loon Survey:

    • This volunteer-based program monitors the effects of acid rain and other human disturbance on loon breeding and presence on Canada's cottage lakes and other waterbodies. 

  • Canadian Migration Monitoring Network:

    • This network of migration monitoring stations from the Bay of Fundy to Vancouver Island, supported by BSC, ensures that migratory bird populations are adequately monitored from coast to coast. 

  • Christmas Bird Count

    The Christmas Bird Count is done in over 1800 localities across Canada, the United States and Latin America. Each local group of birders picks a day between December 14 and January 5th inclusive, sets out a 24-km diameter circle, then does their best to count all the birds within that circle on the selected day.

  • Nocturnal Owl Monitoring Programs

    Participants spend evenings afield in early spring, conducting roadside surveys for calling owls in suitable habitat.
     
  • Project FeederWatch:  

    • Participants keep track of the birds at their feeders during designated periods throughout the winter; the collected data become part of a continental survey.

  • Project NestWatch:

Participants look for nests, notably those of common species like American Robins, and then follow the nest's activity through the season. For each visit, observers note down the date, time and nest contents (number of eggs and/or young). All of these observations are then submitted on this web site where they are automatically included in the national data base.

 
 

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