Birds Canada held its annual general meeting virtually on September 25. It featured our new President Patrick Nadeau in conversation with video reporter and Birds Canada Board member Thor Diakow. Thank you to everyone who tuned in!
Our backyards are important habitats for birds year-round. To help birds, we need to understand how these habitats and the birds using them are changing over time.
Mitigating and adapting to climate change have emerged as defining challenges of our time. Climate change adaptation is always featured in the recommendations I make to decisions makers in the course of my work to conserve bird habitat in the Fraser River Delta Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA).
The 2021 Great Canadian Birdathon® is a year-long effort to raise needed funds for bird conservation. Every donation will advance the understanding and conservation of birds that spend part of their year in Canada or live here year-round!
“HL”, affectionately known as Helen Louise by our field biologists, is a Piping Plover banded as an adult in 2014 by the Canadian Wildlife Service as part of an ongoing study to better understand this Endangered species.
The Canadian Lakes Loon Survey 40-year Report has been released and the results are telling scientists that the Common Loon, Gavia immer, is experiencing mysterious declines in the number of chicks surviving to adulthood.
Scattered across pockets of remaining habitat in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, you can find one of Canada’s truly outstanding bird species – the Thick-billed Longspur.
During the 2021 field season in northern New Brunswick, our goals were to find new individuals or clusters of Bicknell’s Thrushes on isolated mountaintops that had never been surveyed before.
Climate change and loss of biodiversity and are two challenges threatening the future of humanity.
Many important projects, like “Inspiring new champions for Canada Warblers in Columbia” have been made possible in part by bird lovers like you, through past editions of the Great Canadian Birdathon®
