A bird's-eye view: Mark Mallory's fascination with birds, and what they can tell us
Semipalmated plover, Johnson's Mills, NB (Photo by Mike Dembeck)
Mark Mallory likes birds, and he’s not alone. Birds are popular, and not just among high-strung bird nerds elbowing their way through crowds for glimpses of avian visitations. Birds are one of the most diverse groups of organisms in the...
Canada's favourite winter birds
Black-capped chickadee (Photo by Paul Turbitt)
Winter can be a cold, bleak and depressing time of year, yet there is incredible beauty, if you know where to look. Birds that are usually hidden by dense foliage are revealed by the starkness of the frozen landscape. It is the perfect time to...
My 2013 Christmas Bird Count story: Why I've become a regular CBC participant
Snowy owl (Photo by Chris Moncrieff)
There is a very cohesive feeling that comes with participating in a Christmas Bird Count. For more than 100 years, citizens across the Americas have been coming together between December 14 and January 5 to spy, spot, listen for, photograph and...
Birds of a felt: This #CreativeConservation challenge will keep the birds around all winter long!
Felted American golfinch (Photo by NCC)
Last summer, to celebrate the Nature Conservancy of Canada's (NCC’s) 50th anniversary, all staff got to spend time in nature for a few days and work on a project of arts or craft. For my Time for Nature project, I decided to make felt birds...
