Great Backyard Bird Count

The results of this year’s Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) are in. Participants submitted more than 92,000 checklists to the GBBC this year, giving the organizers a snapshot showing the whereabouts of many hundreds of bird species across the United States and Canada. Altogether, participants identified 596 species a...

Migratory Bird Conservation Act

Conservation leaders from Audubon and other groups in Washington to rally support for the reauthorization of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Ac...

Christmas Bird Count

The Christmas Bird Count is a hundred year old tradition taking place every year between December 14 and January 5 in over 2,000 locations across North an...

Bird Conservation

Comprehensive action plans have been put in place in South America and the United States to save the Cerulean Warbler and the Blue-Throated Macaw, two of...

Europe’s Coastal Ecosystems

Europe’s coastal ecosystems are under increasing pressures including habitat loss and degradation, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of...

Seabird Conference

More than 800 participants including world experts on penguins, puffins and albatrosses will be meeting in Victoria, BC, from September 7 to 11th as part of the 1st World Seabird Conference, Bird Studies Canada told me yesterday.  Assembling to review ...

Owls and Eagles

On Saturday I was delighted to go as a guest of the Mature Women’s Network group, of which my sister is a member, for their annual day trip.  The trip included a visit to O.W.L., the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society in Delta, B.C. OWL specializes in rehabilitating...

Bicknell’s Thrush Conservation

A Conservation Action Plan for Bicknell’s Thrush has just been published, setting a course of conservation and research for the next five years for the little brown songbird with the speckled breast and swirling song. The plan is to increase the Thrus...

Kranji Nature Trail

In a $50 million boost to conservation, Singapore’s Kranji Nature Trail will be developed to help handle the increasing volume of visitors keen to see the reserve’s over 220 species of birds.  Soon to be known as the Sungei Buloh Wetland Park, the ...