Category: Birding
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The Breeding Bird Atlas at Ontario Parks!
We’re midway through an exciting five years for Ontario Parks (2021-2025)! We’re supporting the third Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas: an enormous community science initiative that aims to survey all the province’s breeding birds. It’s a big job, so if you like birds and care about their conservation, we could use your help!
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Banding the wind riders
Today’s post was written by David Bree, Natural Heritage Education Leader at Presqu’ile Provincial Park. It’s a blustery late-May day on Presqu’ile’s beach and a few birders are out watching the shorebirds. The birds wheel in and land for a few minutes of frantic feeding before lifting off again and heading out to disappear over…
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Ollie and Oona’s new pad
Port Burwell Provincial Park is a hot spot for large raptors. Two local Osprey (affectionately named Ollie and Oona) fish Big Otter Creek and the shores of Lake Erie, regularly bringing their “catch of the day” back to the park’s radio tower to settle in for some fine dining high above the park. In February…
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Tidewater Provincial Park and Pei lay sheesh kow IBA
Welcome to the September installment of “IBAs in provincial parks,” brought to you by Ontario IBA Coordinator Amanda Bichel of Bird Studies Canada. Today’s Important Bird & Biodiversity Area started out as an area of seven IBAs and is now an amalgamated site with an added 716 km2 of area. Tidewater Provincial Park and the tail…
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Seeing spots at Pinery Provincial Park
Today’s post comes from Tanya Berkers, Resource Management Group Leader at Pinery Provincial Park. You may be seeing spots the next time you visit Pinery’s Visitor Centre, and hopefully the birds will see them too! The park has just installed thousands of vinyl dots on the windows to make them visible to our feathered friends.
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IBAs of Ontario Parks: spring migration on Lake Erie
Welcome to the May installment “IBAs in provincial parks,” brought to you by Ontario IBA Coordinator Amanda Bichel of Bird Studies Canada. Did you know Saturday (May 11, 2019) was International Migratory Bird Day! What a wonderful reason to highlight sites renowned for migrating songbirds! In today’s post, we’re chatting about two of Ontario’s southern-most Important Bird…
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May's digital download
“Well, everybody knows that the bird is a word.” – The Trashmen This month’s FREE digital download of a Chestnut-sided Warbler was snapped at Rondeau Provincial Park.
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The boreal forest: Ontario’s songbird nursery
Today’s post comes from Discovery and Marketing Specialist Dave Sproule. Migrating birds are already arriving along the edges of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, and many southern parks have birding events and festivals. But for most of the migrants, these parks are just a rest stop after crossing those big stretches of water. Their destination may…
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Pecking away at Presqu'ile: High Bluff and Gull Island bird colonies
This post was written by David Bree, Natural Heritage Education Leader at Presqu’ile Provincial Park. While Presqu’ile is not the busiest park in Ontario, it can get quite hectic at times in the summer. However, I am pretty sure most people could not guess where the busiest place in the park is. It is not…