Birds Canada held a third successful bird count within the Fraser River Estuary Important Bird Area in British Columbia on November 20, 2021. Sixty-five volunteer surveyors detected 132 bird species and more than 180,000 individuals in this crucial wintering bird hotspot! An immense thank-you to all who contributed.

The role will involve supporting Indigenous communities in monitoring coastal and marine birds in British Columbia, with a principal focus on the Fraser River Delta.

The Digital Communications Coordinator develops, delivers, and supports a variety of digital communications and public relations functions to ensure a strong, consistent Birds Canada message and brand.

The Office Operations Manager will play a key role in the overall workplace experience as this position will be responsible for managing office operations and being an ambassador for our workplace culture.

Dr. Tony Gaston, in collaboration with Mark Maftei and the Raincoast Education Society (RES), set out to improve this knowledge by conducting self-funded, formal surveys in 2020 and 2021. And we had an opportunity to participate in the field surveys!

Birds have long been tied to our holiday traditions, from cardinals and Blue Jays with snowy backdrops adorning our greeting cards, to songs about birds that date back to the late 1700s.

For more than 20 years, bird observatories across Canada have been banding birds and carrying out other meaningful research and monitoring activities as part of the Canadian Migration Monitoring Network.

As 2021 draws to a close, all of us at Birds Canada are reflecting with gratitude on the support we’ve received this year. We hope you’ll feel the impact of your contributions as you enjoy the Winter 2022 issue of BirdWatch Canada magazine.

The Conservation Data Analyst will play a lead role in developing a model to support Piping Plover conservation in Nova Scotia. The goal of the model is to identify key characteristics that impact Piping Plover abundance and habitat selection over time.

Find the Birds is a bridge from screen time to green time. I conceived of it to get my peers excited about nature. As an avid gamer and winner of the 2018 American Birding Association Young Birder of the Year Award, I envisioned a new type of entertainment, one where ...