Connecting birds with people...and people with birds
Pat Shaughnessy with a savannah sparrow, TLBO (Photo by NCC)
Much is written about the importance of getting young children out into nature, while their joy of engagement with natural life is unmitigated. We should not overlook the idea that that joy is not restricted to children. Pat Shaughnessy is 83...
Tatlayoko forever! The Tatlayoko Lake Bird Observatory opens for a ninth season
White-winged crossbills, Tatlayoko Lake Bird Observatory, British Columbia (Photo by Steve Ogle)
Although trained as a vegetation ecologist, I have been interested in birds and birdwatching for many years. To my delight, in 2006 I was asked to design a monitoring program for migratory birds at the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s (NCC's)...
Small mammals of the Sage and Sparrow Conservation Area
Western harvest mouse, the real life Pikachu! (Photo by Andy Teucher)
In the early 1990s, esteemed entomologist Geoff Scudder spent time in the South Okanagan creating an inventory of the insects that lived in this near-desert landscape. In a happy accident, the traps set out for insects ended up catching a couple...
UFO sightings in BC? No, just getting a different vantage point on the Sage and Sparrow Conservation Area
Hexacopter (Photo by NCC)
In the video, the camera seems to fly over two Nature Conservancy (NCC) staff as they walk along a cliff-side. You might wonder: how did they make that camera fly and take such great shots? Recently, the BC Region arranged for a short video to be...
