Tag: Birds
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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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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…
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The IBAs of Polar Bear Provincial Park
This installment of our 2017 blog series IBAs in provincial parks — brought to you by Ontario IBA Coordinator Amanda Bichel of Bird Studies Canada — is very “cool.” Welcome to our year-long blog series! For our inaugural spotlight, we are staying in the winter spirit and focusing on Ontario’s far north. That’s right: our worlds…
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The secret flight of birds at night
Today’s post comes from Park Biologist Erica Barkley. As a kid, I always pictured bird migration as Canada Geese flying south in a “V” during the day. But that changed one calm, clear September evening. A park naturalist pointed out dozens of tiny “peep” noises over our heads. “Those are songbirds,” he said. “No way!” I…
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Billions travel Ontario's migration superhighways
Today’s post comes from Brad Steinberg, our Natural Heritage Education and Learning Coordinator. An avid birder, Brad identifies several “migration superhighways” and the role provincial parks play in protecting Canada’s Important Bird Areas. Being stuck in traffic sucks. Especially with young kids. This sentiment recently ran through my head while mired in bumper-to-bumper traffic on…