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What a Bird’s Colouration Can Tell You!
Image Credit A UK team led by researchers from Liverpool John Moores University studied Gouldian finches, highly sociable Australian birds. In their newly published study, they show that the head colour of…
Are You Seeing A Lot of Butterflies?
[PHOTO CREDIT: CWF PHOTO CONTEST MARSHA LOMIS (Red Admiral Image)] Are you seeing more butterflies this spring than usual? If you live in eastern Canada then you probably are, especially…
Ancient Plant Blooms Again
[PHOTO] When you look at this plant, imagine a wooly mammoth or saber-toothed cat walking by. “What on earth?” you might say…although “when on earth” might be more relevant. This…
Are Birds Singing Louder?
[Photo Credit: Cornell Lab of Ornithology] Does it seem like the birds in your area are singing louder than they did a few years ago? If you live in an…
Urban Runoff and Your Local Stream
[Photo Credit] Did you know that urban runoff is the main source of toxic chemicals for urban streams? With the warm temperatures many of us experienced last week and will…
Celebration in Lawrencetown, N.S.
[PHOTO: CWF] I went to a party last weekend in Lawrencetown, a small rural village in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. It has a population of just over 650.…
Pileated in the Parking Lot
[PHOTO: JENNIFER HOWARD, CWF SUPPORTER] Thanks to the mature hardwood trees that remain around CWF headquarters in Kanata, Ontario, we have a variety of birds that come to feed and…
Six Wondrous Things About Nature
Magic is often described as the impossible made real. If that’s true, then nature may be the greatest magician of all. As adults, we’re taught to stop believing in magic.…
Fighting Eco-Anxiety With CWF Programs
One of the many obstacles to combating the climate crisis is eco-anxiety. Even if you’ve never heard of this term, chances are you’ve felt it: the crushing feeling of doom…
Ontario’s Endangered Species Under Attack
To protect endangered species we also need to protect the habitat they rely upon. That’s a pretty basic idea. To protect a forest bird, we need to protect the forest…
