The Bird Academy is offering a free, online course on how to use eBird and the benefits of adding your sightings to the eBird database. It is a self-paced course with no deadline on when you need to complete it.  For full details and registration go to the Bird Academy website. “Discover how eBird can support your passion for birds and how your participation can help us better understand them. Birder, bird watcher, or bird lover, it doesn’t matter—this course is for you. Whether you watch birds at your feeder … Continue reading →

The BC Nature Annual General Meeting scheduled for May 28-30, 2020 in Princeton and hosted by the Vermilion Forks Field Naturalists has been cancelled. The next general meeting is now scheduled for May 27-29, 2021, hosted by Vermilion Forks. The AGM in 2022 will be in Kelowna and hosted by the Central Okanagan Naturalists’ Club.  If you have submitted your registration and paid fees for the 2020 conference, the organizing committee will be glad to hold your registration until next year. They will also refund your fees if you wish. … Continue reading →

In an article on HuffPost, The Case for Citizen Science, the writer makes a case for the value of A famous philosopher once said that the unexamined life is not worth living. Life is a big game, and there are lots of reasons to live, but we surely can make life better by examining and reporting our findings, and citizen scientists are a major part of that endeavor. Won’t you join in the game?     The Citizen Science Association promotes the idea of Citizen science as the involvement of … Continue reading →