Eco News Archive
Big Picture Talks: Carolinian Canada 30/30 Celebration
Celebrate our 30th Anniversary with us by participating in our 30 for 30 Vision Campaign. It’s a fun and way to learn more about the significance of Carolinian nature found right in your backyard. It also provides an avenue to reflect on the past, share success stories and create a vision for the future.
Notes from the Field: The Ojibway Massasauga Recovery Project
Monitoring surveys are ongoing in Windsor and LaSalle Ontario targeting one of the last populations of Eastern Massasaugas in Canada's Carolinian zone (the Ojibway Prairie population). Between late April and late August 2014 we conducted standardized detection surveys to better estimate detection probability and occupancy of this endangered and declining population. We are monitoring a total of 14 two-hectare sites within the historical range of the species. Sites were chosen based on the predominance of suitable open habitat.
Grow Wild High School Boot Camps Continue in 2015
Carolinian Canada Coalition has developed a program targeted at youth to teach and inspire action towards species at risk recovery in Ontario called the Grow Wild Boot Camp.
Point Pelee and Rondeau
I had great time birding at the Point Pelee and the Rondeau areas from May 7 through 9. Highlights in and around Pelee area incl
Almost There and Only Half Way!
As of the end of June my species total is 263 for the Carolinian Zone -- just seven species shy of my "modest" target of 270 with half a year to go. Getting there since my last post in early May has been quite a birding delight. In one afternoon at Point Pelee, I added two species to my all-time Ontario life list: a most obliging Chuck-Will's-Widow and the ever-elusive (in Ontario) Mississippi Kite. This was on May 16. I had heard about the Chuck-Will's-Widow, which was discovered earlier that day along the Woodland Trail south of the Visitor's Centre....
Contract Position - Carolinian Zone Ecologist
Contract: 6 months, FT
Deadline: September 11, 2015
Starting: October 2015
Compensation: Commensurate with experience. This position will be particularly suited to a strongly-motivated, experienced conservation professional (mid-career, or an “early-career high-achiever”) who is inspired to work in the challenging but rewarding environment of a small but important conservation NGO.
Focus: 1. Landowner Leaders program, Carolinian Habitat Action Plans; 2. Life science inventory fieldwork and reporting; 3. Ecological restoration planning; 4. Species At Risk and ecosystem recovery outreach education and outreach; 5. Carolinian Canada Conservation Action Plan implementation and monitoring; 6. Fund-raising.
Species Goal Surpassed!
September is one of the most exciting months in the birding world. In the northern hemisphere, bird populations are at their highest after the breeding season and most migratory species are on the move, so you never know what you are going to find on any given day. I had great luck.
Vermilion Flycatcher Lifts Carolinian List to 285 Species
285 and Counting!