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Did You Know…..
[PHOTO CREDIT: ISABELLE MAROZZO – CWF PHOTO CONTEST] Did you know that blue jays are not really blue? Their blue colouration does not come from pigments but rather by the…
How Many Birds Die In Canada Each Year From Human Activities?
[CWF PHOTO CONTEST PICTURE SUBMITTED BY MRS. DEBBIE OPPERMANN] A new study was released by Environment Canada that shows how human activities in Canada affect wild birds, and the numbers…
There’s Been Another Escape
There’s been yet another salmon escape from a fish farm. One aquaculture company on the south coast has lost 20,000 salmon from a sea cage. Salmon escapes like this are…
Monarchs Still In Decline
[CWF PHOTO CONTEST PICTURES SUBMITTED BY – LEFT: BILL MCMULLEN, MIDDLE: DEBBIE OPPERMANN, RIGHT: MARY HINDLE] In an article I read this morning, monarch numbers in last winter’s annual survey…
Bat Citizen Science Opportunities
[CWF PHOTO CONTEST PICTURE SUBMITTED BY JADENE GRIMON] There are several programs in Canada focusing on bat citizen science. They generally fall into these areas: reporting maternity colonies; emergence counts…
A Possible Biocontrol for WNS
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM] I recently attended the 6th annual white-nose syndrome workshop held in Boise, Idaho Sept 3-6th. These meetings are a bit different from regular conferences in…
Wayne Clifford’s poem – A Lament for Bats
[PHOTO CREDIT: WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME.ORG] Wayne Clifford, a poet from Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, did a CBC radio interview on Monday and read his poem, “A Lament for Bats” –…
WNS Continues to Spread
[PHOTO CREDIT: WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME.ORG] As you can see in the above map, white-nose syndrome continued to spread at a rapid pace during the 2012-2013 winter season. Nine new…
WNS on CBC’s Land and Sea!
[PHOTO CREDIT: DF MCALPINE] – Myself on the left with the camera crew – I recently spent two days with a CBC camera crew. They are making an episode of…
CBC Shift Interview on WNS
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM] I did an interview with CBC Shift on Tuesday regarding WNS (white-nose syndrome) and the recent listing of three bat species to the Species at…
