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Tag: naturalist

  • Bats in your belfry?

    Today’s post comes from naturalist Laura Penner of Rondeau Provincial Park. Every Halloween, we are bombarded with spooky images: haunted houses, cemeteries, dark nights, deserted roads and — of course — bats!

  • 10 cool facts about dragonflies

    If you’ve ever watched a dragonfly speed over the water, you know how captivating they are! But while they’re among the oldest flying insects – they’ve been around for 250-300 million years — scientists are still just learning about them.

  • "What the heck is that?!": when to #AskanOPNaturalist

    Today’s post comes from David LeGros, a park naturalist with the Ontario Parks Discovery Program. “I’ve never seen one of those” is among my favorite sentences. There’s a scary thing that happens the longer you look into nature. The more you find, the more you find out that you don’t know that much. It can…

  • Why we should all aspire to be naturalists

    In today’s post, Algonquin Provincial Park‘s David LeGros wishes everyone a happy Darwin Day! Today, it seems that we know so much about the world around us: how it works, what lives here, and what threatens it. Truthfully, it would be arrogant to think that we know it all — we don’t. Discovering and explaining…

  • Can you teach an old naturalist new tricks?

    Today’s blog comes from Tim Tully, Discovery Coordinator at Awenda Provincial Park. That is the question. After decades of doing things a certain way, can I rally the forces of change and adopt a new way of recording species data? Should I submit species data to iNaturalist or not? I decided to empirically investigate in…

  • Owl-induced whiplash

    In today’s post, Alistair MacKenzie, Naturalist Heritage Education Supervisor at Pinery Provincial Park, recounts a dramatic encounter with an Eastern Screech Owl. © Can Stock Photo Inc. / mlorenz. We desperately needed to confirm breeding evidence for Eastern Screech Owls in our survey squares for the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas back in 2005. It was our last…

  • The best parts of a northern summer, according to a southern naturalist

    Every summer, you’ll find me in the parks of northern Ontario. When the operating season is done, and the visitors have returned home, I go back to where I’m from: the far south of the province. Moving between these regions gives me a special appreciation for my time in the north.

  • Rondeau's Nature Nuggets

    The naturalists at Rondeau Provincial Park have been busy this summer. In case you missed it, check out the park’s ongoing “Nature Nuggets” video series. Check out these videos on turtles, mallards and invasive species!

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