Category: Birding
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Spring birding festivals
The songbirds are returning and bringing spring with them! Catch a bird-banding demonstration, take in a nature photography workshop, or sign on for a bird-themed hike with our park naturalists. If you love songbirds, you won’t want to miss the Ontario Parks spring birding festivals:
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Forest birds of Misery Bay
Today’s post comes from Natural Heritage Education and Marketing Specialist Dave Sproule. A trip out to Misery Bay Provincial Park on lovely Manitoulin Island is always a treat. To go during the spring migration is doubly so.
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Rondeau's Wings of Spring
Is your family ready to take flight this March Break? Check out Rondeau Provincial Park’s “Wings of Spring.” This bird-themed spring series runs March 9-17, 2019, and features all sorts of feathery fun!
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IBAs of Ontario Parks: the Frontenac Forests IBA
Welcome to the September installment of “IBAs in provincial parks,” brought to you by Ontario IBA Coordinator Amanda Bichel of Bird Studies Canada. Break out the champagne! We don’t often add new IBAs to the Canadian family of sites, so when we do, it’s a special occasion. The all-new Frontenac Forests Important Bird and Biodiversity…
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IBAs of Ontario Parks: Turkey Point and the Norfolk Forest Complex IBA
Welcome to the August installment of “IBAs in provincial parks,” brought to you by Ontario IBA Coordinator Amanda Bichel of Bird Studies Canada. Summer is a perfect time to talk about Turkey Point Provincial Park and the Norfolk Forest Complex IBA! These forests are known for supporting a rich breeding bird community, as well as an…
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Carden Alvar Provincial Park and Important Bird & Biodiversity Area
Welcome to the July installment of “IBAs in provincial parks,” brought to you by Ontario IBA Coordinator Amanda Bichel of Bird Studies Canada. This month, we’ll be talking about the Carden Alvar, a terrific example of harmony between Ontario Parks and the Important Bird & Biodiversity Area program. Carden Alvar is a very special story, weaving together…
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Bobo-what?
When Bobolinks are mentioned in mixed audiences, you invariably get muffled laughter, quizzical looks and finally the question, “A bobo-what?” Bobolinks are small songbirds in the same family as grackles and meadowlarks. The breeding male is most recognizable by its black body and white back with a buff patch at the nape.
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Ouimet Canyon: a northwestern birding hotspot
Today’s post comes from our Northwest Regional Planning Ecologist Bill Greaves. Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park is typically visited for its jaw-dropping geological feature, but it’s also one of the better birding hotspots in the Thunder Bay area. What might you see at Ouimet Canyon?
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IBAs of Ontario Parks: tundra swans and spring songbirds
This installment of our 2017 blog series IBAs in provincial parks — brought to you by Ontario IBA Coordinator Amanda Bichel of Bird Studies Canada —focuses on the spring migrations at two of our southwestern parks. On my recent trip to Rondeau Provincial Park / IBA for the Wings of Spring festival and the Port Franks…