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2021 Global Bird Rescue
By Jennifer Nantais The Global Bird Rescue is an annual week-long event where citizens search for birds that have collided with windows in urban areas. The goal is to find injured birds quickly to get them the help they need and increase their chances of survival, and record all collision incidents, casualties and survivors. The purpose is to identify the extent of the losses taking place in order to mitigate hazards and make communities safer. [...]
A New App for the Twitcher’s Toolkit
By Laura Foy If you’ve ever subscribed to a rare bird alert notification, you’ll be all too familiar with descriptions like this, “Travel west 2/3rd of the way down Army Camp Road from Hwy 21, look for orange flagging tape on the fence on your left. Look for hydro pole 2146.” It gets even worse if there’s no roads involved, “5 in weedy areas near flooded fields, 2 at least along trail behind pond (north [...]
The first annual Lynda Corkum ECFNC Bursary
By Chris Hart In the Club’s continuing effort to support the fascination and exploration of nature by our community, we are pleased to announce the contribution of a bursary to a graduate student in the Biology department at the University of Windsor. This bursary was made possible by funds collected through sales of the Fish Book (more formally, The Fishes of Essex County and Surrounding Waters), and as such, has been named after its author, [...]
Historical Egret Article
Below is a reprint from December 1986 (Egret Volume 3, Issue 4), in which Paul Pratt discusses the fine art of cocoon hunting. Hopefully these tips have stood the test of time, and you might just have yourself a new hobby this winter.
ECFNC launches a Phragmites Committee
By Karen Alexander The European Common Reed (Phragmites australis) (a.k.a. Phragmites) is a familiar site to members of the Essex County Field Naturalists Club. Once you know what Phragmites is, it is impossible to ‘unsee’ the landscape-level infestation occurring in Essex County. Phragmites is a significant threat to biodiversity, second only to habitat loss. Invasive Phragmites on Hwy. 17, Sault Saint Marie, Ontario. Credit: Invasive Species Centre Club President, Karen Alexander, gave a talk on [...]