Birds Canada Winter Birds Photo Contest
Regardless of what is happening in our human-world, birds are still outside doing their thing, and winter is a great time to look for and photograph them. Not all our regularly occurring Citizen Science programs are going ahead this winter, but if you do end up...
Hemisphere-wide collaboration to further understanding of migratory shorebird declines
By Pete Davidson (Senior Conservation Advisor) and Dr. David Bradley (Director, BC Program), Birds Canada Shorebirds connect people and places. They are symbols of coastal and interior wetlands, some of the richest and most threatened habitats on Earth....
President – Birds Canada
POSITION: President LOCATION: Port Rowan, Ontario or mutually agreed location POSITION DETAILS: Full Time, Permanent WEBSITE: birdscanada.org REPORTS TO: Board of Directors DIRECT REPORTS: VP Finance & Administration/CFO, VP Conservation & Science,...
Holiday Gifts
With the holiday season coming up quickly, our team at Birds Canada wanted to share some gift ideas that will have a lasting impact for birds. Bird-Inspired Yarn For those who enjoy crafts as much as they enjoy birds, bird-themed yarn could be just the thing. At...
Identifying Canada’s Key Biodiversity Areas to help set conservation priorities
By Amanda Bichel, Ontario Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas Coordinator, Birds Canada Something is going on behind the scenes with the Landscape Science and Conservation team at Birds Canada. We’re calling it the IBA to KBA “crosswalk”, and it holds promise...
New Grasslands Conservation Incentives project to benefit Canadian ranchers and birds
By Dr. Silke Nebel, Vice-President, Conservation and Science, Birds Canada The State of Canada Birds, 2019 confirmed that Canada has lost nearly 60% of our grassland birds since 1970. This is crisis for bird life and sounds an alarm for our broader biodiversity as...
Speak up now – protect the Fraser Estuary for birds we love
By Caroline Biel, Engagement and Communications Officer, BC Region, Birds Canada The Fraser River Estuary lies just south of Vancouver, where British Columbia’s longest river flows into the Salish Sea. Here, an extensive variety of habitat types – saltmarsh,...
Partnership in action: Helping cats and birds live safer in BC
By Anna Skurikhina (Communications and Outreach Coordinator, Stewardship Centre for BC) and Caroline Biel (Bird Conservation Engagement and Communications Officer, BC, Birds Canada) Many North American bird populations are rapidly declining. Since 1970, North America...