Dan Busby

Dan has lived in Europe, Australia and five Canadian Provinces. He received a B.Sc (H) and M.Sc. in ornithology from the University of Manitoba. A life-long birder and professional biologist, he recently retired from the Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada where he studied a wide range of bird topics, including the effects of toxic chemicals (forest pesticides, contaminants), salmonellosis, and West Nile Virus on birds. He was actively involved in research and monitoring initiatives that lead to the COSEWIC listing of Bicknell’s Thrush and Chimney Swift. He coordinated the Maritimes Breeding Bird Survey and ran a bird migration monitoring program in Nova Scotia. He was Chair of Partners in Flight - Maritimes, a multi-stakeholder group of academic, government and non-government representatives that published the Maritimes Landbird Conservation Plan. He was an active participant in numerous regional and national committees involving wind power, breeding bird atlases, toxic chemicals, boreal bird monitoring and landbird conservation. For the past several years of his career he worked with industry and government to establish environmental assessment guidelines and study protocols to facilitate the safe implementation of wind power developments. An avid photographer, birder and naturalist he is a member of Hamilton Naturalists' Club, Bird Studies Canada and the Society of Canadian Ornithologists. Dan currently lives with his wife in southern Ontario and when not out photographing birds he continues to work on environmental aspects of wind power developments and various bird conservation initiatives.