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SUMMARY OF ESSEX COUNTY’S 2022 BIRD CHECKLIST
– 304 species – By Cameron Chevalier 2022 proved to be an exceptional year for birding in Essex County. The 304 species recorded in the county constitutes the highest county total ever recorded and the highest total for any single county in a year for the province of Ontario. The previous record (both county and provincial) of 301 species was set in 2005. Almost 23,000 checklists were submitted to eBird this year for Essex, along [...]
Habitat at Home
By Laura Foy Black-eyed Susans, Swamp Milkweed and Virginia Mountain Mint We tend to take up a lot of space as North Americans. Canadians rank third in the world for average house size. It is estimated that lawns occupy a total area of more than 50 million acres across the continent. That’s an equivalent land area more than 25 times the size of Algonquin Park. Canada currently has protected 13% of our land and water [...]
Nature notes for early 2023
By Howard Williams Over the Christmas holiday period we were talking with old friends who live in New Zealand. They reminded us that Radio New Zealand still uses identified bird calls just before the news in the mornings – every morning. Over the 16 years that we were living in New Zealand, these recordings were for us a useful introduction to the variety of birds in that country and the fact that this has been [...]
Lower Detroit River KBA Count Update: 2021 to 2023
By Jeremy Hatt The Essex County Field Naturalists’ Club (ECFNC) stepped into the role of Caretaker for the Lower Detroit River Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) in 2015 and started conducting waterfowl counts in the area in 2016. Originally named Important Bird Areas, Birds Canada updated the title to Key Biodiversity Areas to better reflect their ecosystems as a whole. There are Key Biodiversity Areas found across North America including six within Essex County. The Lower [...]
2022 Bluebird Committee Report
By Don Bissonnette In 2022, The Eastern Bluebirds in Essex County had a good year. I collected statistics from 24 trails, which had a total of 167 birdhouses. We counted a total of 24 successful pairs of Bluebirds, which produced a total of 119 fledglings. This is a significant increase, compared to the previous years numbers. In 2021, we only counted 16 successful pairs of Bluebirds, which produced only 69 fledgling Bluebirds. INSPECTION TIME [...]