BSC Annual Members Meeting
3 July 2009 – Bird Studies Canada members are invited to join us at our national
headquarters in Port Rowan for our 2009 Annual Members Meeting, to be held on Saturday, September 19 at
2:00 p.m.
At the time of the meeting, there will be five vacancies on Bird Studies Canada’s Board of Directors.
The following individuals have been nominated to fill these positions: Bryce Hunter, Chartered Accountant and businessman;
incumbent Hugh McArthur, retired teacher and coordinator of the Friends of Long Point Bird Observatory; incumbent Betsy McFarlane,
a freelance translator and volunteer at McGill Bird Observatory; Margaret Skeel, Manager of Natural Heritage Programs for Nature Saskatchewan;
and Richard Waterous, founding Partner of and Counsel to Waterous, Holden, Amey, Hitchon LLP, and Chairman of La Réserve Beauchêne.
BSC Hires Database Manager
26 June 2009 – Daniel Dillon has joined the BSC team at our national headquarters in Port Rowan.
As Database Manager, Daniel will assist Senior Scientist Denis Lepage with a variety of database-related tasks, including work on breeding bird atlases,
the Canadian Migration Monitoring Network, the Marsh Monitoring Program, Nocturnal Owl Surveys, and many other programs.
Daniel learned to program a business database and e-commerce website to accommodate the needs of a growing family business in 2000, and he received his B.Sc. in biology from the University of Western Ontario in 2007. His diverse work experience includes a position developing databases for the St. Clair Conservation Authority in Strathroy, Ontario. Welcome, Daniel!
Record-Late Spring Hinders Breeding Season
Photo: Christian Artuso
13 June 2009 – As winter
and heavy snow cover lingered in northern Manitoba and the eastern
Arctic into mid-June, Robert Alison reported in the
Winnipeg Free
Press that scientists were predicting that most wildlife species,
including migratory birds (such as geese and shorebirds), would be
unlikely to successfully breed in the Hudson Bay area this season.
As a result of snowy conditions and below-average temperatures,
Canada Geese did not initiate nesting until June 7 (more than one
month later than usual), and shorebird nesting had not yet begun,
even though it was already three weeks late as of June 13. Late
nesting means birds may not have time to rear young that are strong
enough to survive fall migration, with some birds unlikely to nest
at all. Fortunately BSC began to receive anecdotal reports the week
of June 22 that conditions were changing quickly, and that shorebird
nesting had begun in the Hudson Bay area.
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