Bird Study Group

May 17, 2010
United States, Canada, Mexico announce joint avian conservation assessment
The United States, Canada and Mexico, on behalf of the group Partners in Flight, announced the release of the first comprehensive conservation assessment of bird species in North America in a report that lays out priorities for bird conservation.

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Ellis Bird Farm Bluebird Festival July 10, 2010.

The Bird Study Group organizes an extensive slate of field trips, meetings and species counts. All are welcome to participate. If anyone (or any group) would like to help with the provision of coffee and cookies, please let a member of the BSG Council know.

The month of May is Bird Studies Canada (BSC) funtastic Ballie Birdathon. Find out more at BSC to register.

May Species Counts 2010: Brooks Lake Newell May 22/23, and Milk River Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park May 29/30. These are joint events with Edmonton Nature Club. More information will be in the next Nature News, but the coordinator, Bob Parsons, advises people who wish to camp at Tillebrook Provincial Park to contact him regarding campsite reservations at 1-780-488-1344 (2 powered and 5 tenting sites are currently available). For maps, itineraries, contacts and more details see the pamphlet.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s NestWatch project is underway for 2010. NestWatch welcomes data for all North American birds. Participants submit data about which kinds of birds are nesting, the number of eggs laid, dates eggs were laid, and the numbers of chicks hatched and fledged. Several NestCams are online for viewing on the Cornell website.

Interested in monitoring your favorite wetland area for birds? By volunteering as little as 12 hours a year you can help contribute valuable information to the Bird Studies Canada's Prairie and Parkland Marsh Monitoring Program. Click here for further information or contact Katherine Brewster at (306) 249-2894 for details.

Birds Calgary - 2010 Bird Competition

New in December

City of Calgary Christmas count results!

The new webmaster for the Bird Study Group is Carole Hachey. Carole has been a member of Nature Calgary for several years and is also a volunteer with the Calgary Bird Banding Society.

Field trip data will no longer be added to the BSG web. The new field trips are on the Nature Calgary web at www.naturecalgary.com/field_trips.html.

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