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Ontario Birds At Risk
Bald Eagles
Red-shouldered Hawks
Barn Owls
Short-eared Owls
Loggerhead Shrikes
Prothonotary Warblers
Great Lakes
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Bird Studies Canada, and formerly Long Point Bird Observatory has been running Ontario-wide programs for many years, beginning with the Ontario Bird Feeder Survey, launched in 1976, which later became the continental Project FeederWatch program. The Canadian Lakes Loon Survey also had its beginnings in Ontario. We ran the Great Lakes Beached Bird Survey for several years in the early 1980s; this international program was designed to provide us with information on the numbers, species and distributions of birds found dead along shorelines throughout the Great Lakes. At about the same time, we launched the Ontario Heronry Inventory, which is still repeated every 10 years. A Great Lakes Colonial Bird Registry was later conducted. Together with the Federation of Ontario Naturalists, we launched the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas project (1981-85), which then evolved into the Ontario Rare Breeding Bird Program, and which has in turn continued as the Ontario Birds At Risk program. Other current projects in Ontario include the Great Lakes Marsh Monitoring Program, the Nocturnal Owl Survey. Wherever possible, Ontario projects have a large, and very important, volunteer component.
