The Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna) formerly bred only in the southern two thirds of California and the Baja regions with post-breeding dispersal in many geographic directions. Their breeding range increased north and eastward and by the late 1940s and 1950s, … Continue reading →
Contributed by Trudy Frisk with an introduction by Margaret Graham All photos by Rick Howie With the arrival of spring, it won’t be long before the Sandhill Cranes start their migration from their wintering grounds in the south and stop … Continue reading →
Submitted by Rick Howie (Compiler) Hybrid Glaucus x Herring Gull by Rick Howie It was a blustery, snowy day on Dec. 21 , 2020 for our 41st annual Christmas Bird Count first started in 1979. The club had been doing … Continue reading →
Club member Barb Zimonick had the good fortune to photograph a rare condition in birds called leucism. Here is how Barb describes the sighting. I saw this bird on Oct 11, 2020 while driving up O’Connor Road, west off Westsyde … Continue reading →
From the September newsletter, here are some great tips from Isaac Nelson on where to see birds. While most birds have stopped singing and displaying by September, the unpredictability that comes with fall migration has an excitement of its own. … Continue reading →
This is an extract from an article written by Ken Wu. Ken is the founder and executive director of the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance The full article is here. Most Canadians are familiar with the concept of an endangered species act … Continue reading →
From the May 2020 Newsletter, this article was contributed by Rick Howie. You may have heard about “important Bird Areas” or IBAs and wondered what they are. To quote from the IBA Canada website “important Bird Areas (IBAs) are discrete … Continue reading →
Contributed by Tristan Semeniuk. Tristan is a member of the Next Generation Naturalists program. Many of us enjoy the songs that migrating birds sing in the spring, and there is a large diversity of birds that call Gamble’s Pond at … Continue reading →