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17 October 2003
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National Public Radio Features Story on Birds of the Boreal
BSC’s Project FeederWatch Featured in EnviroZine
Brazilian Merganser’s Habitat ThreatenedInternational News
Avibase now Available in Six Languages
National News
Bird Banders Get Together in Calgary
BSC Welcomes New Canadian Migration Monitoring Network Member Station
National Protocol Standards for Marsh Bird Monitoring RecommendationsRegional
October 2003 BC-YT Owl Survey Newsletter
Bird Banders Get Together in Calgary
14 October 2003 - The fourth national meeting of the Canadian Migration Monitoring Network (CMMN) was held on the weekend of 3-5 October 2003, at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary in Calgary, Alberta. In addition to station reports, participants reported on a variety of projects including stopover site fidelity by transient fall migrants at Inglewood, results of moult studies at Lesser Slave Lake, community outreach and youth education programs at Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory, habitat monitoring protocols, and a pilot banding project that is catching large numbers of Swainson's Thrush during spring migration at a site in Costa Rica. Forty people from across Canada attended the meeting, representing nine CMMN member organizations, five pilot migration monitoring stations, Bird Studies Canada (Prairie Region and National Headquarters), and the Canadian Wildlife Service (British Columbia and Saskatchewan). Thanks to the Calgary Bird Banding Society for hosting this successful event. Please click here to read more about the CMMN.
Avibase now Available in Six Languages
14 October 2003 - Two new languages have just been added to the Avibase web site, thanks to the help of volunteers from other countries. In addition to English, French, Portuguese and Dutch, Avibase is now also available in Spanish and Swedish. The site continues to attract a growing number of visitors, averaging several thousand hits every day. Please click here to visit Avibase
BSC Welcomes New Canadian Migration Monitoring Network Member Station
14 October 2003 - Bird Studies Canada (BSC) is pleased to welcome Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory (BPBO) as a new member of the Canadian Migration Monitoring Network (CMMN). The 16 members of the CMMN operate a total of 21 field stations from coast-to-coast across Canada. BPBO operates a migration monitoring station at Cabot Head, Ontario. The Cabot Head migration monitoring station is strategically located at the northeast tip of the Bruce Peninsula, which separates Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, near the centre of the Great Lakes basin. BPBO also runs an education program and coordinates an annual volunteer-based Red-necked Grebe survey in the Cabot Head Important Bird Area. Click here for more information on BPBO or the CMMN.
National Public Radio Features Story on Birds of the Boreal
13 October 2003 - National Geographics’s Radio Expeditions 14 October feature on National Public Radio (NPR) focuses on the boreal forest. Cathy Wilkinson, director of the Canadian Boreal Initiative, was one of the experts interviewed. She says Americans should be concerned about the Boreal because it is the breeding ground for many birds that are beloved in the United States. Click here to read more or listen to the story.
October 2003 BC-YT Owl Survey Newsletter
9 October 2003 - The October 2003 edition of the British Columbia-Yukon Owl Survey Newsletter is available on line. Click here to read summary charts, view four-year trends, read about attempts to estimate the number of saw-whets, learn about screech owls, and more.
BSC’s Project FeederWatch Featured in EnviroZine
9 October 2003 - Environment Canada’s on line newsmagazine, EnviroZine, features a story about Bird Studies Canada’s Project FeederWatch in the October issue. Click here to read the story, Winter is for the Birds!
National Protocol Standards for Marsh Bird Monitoring Recommendations
7 October 2003 - Steve Timmermans, Bird Studies Canada's (BSC) Aquatic Surveys Scientist and Program Coordinator, will be attending a three-day meeting in Saskatoon from 14 - 16 October as a member of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative's (NABCI) Inland Waterbird Technical Committee. Timmermans will lead a special session to discuss and develop recommendations for producing national protocol standards for marsh bird monitoring across Canada. Click here to read a recent discussion paper written by BSC's Steve Timmermans and Jon McCracken for the Inland Waterbird Technical Committee.
Brazilian Merganser’s Habitat Threatened
6 October 2003 - BirdLife International reports that the two known remaining refuges of the Critically Endangered Brazilian merganser (Mergus octosetaceus) have been badly hit by fires, leading to serious concern for the continued survival of the species, already estimated to number fewer than 250 individuals. Click here to link to the media release.
BC-Yukon Nocturnal Owl Survey Results
2 October 2003 - Preliminary results are in from the 2003 BC-Yukon Nocturnal Owl Survey. This year 153 observers listened for owls at 2297 spots on 175 surveys and heard 402 owls. The most common species, as usual, was the Northern Saw-whet Owl with 144 heard, the Boreal Owl was in second spot with 113. The BC-Yukon survey does not use tape playback; observers simply listen for two minutes at each stop. Click here for more information about Bird Studies Canada’s Nocturnal Owl Surveys.
2003 NABCI Calendar of Events - Revisions and Additions
October 2003 - Please note that the NABCI Canada Council has released revisions and additions to their 2003 calendar. Please click here for the full Calendar as of October 2003, including contact details for further meeting information.
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