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April 6, 2021
By Chris Drost
While the Canada jay, also known as the whiskey jack or gray jay, was selected as Canada’s official bird in 2019, discouraging news has recently come out of a study performed in Algonquin Park.
This study concluded that Canada jay populations have declined about 67 per cent because of nest failure.
Global warming is assumed to be the cause, resulting in the deterioration of food stored in the forest by Canada jays. The birds nest in March and rely on stored food to feed their babies in April but the study group were finding babies that apparently died of starvation.
February 23, 2021
By Nate Smelle
Every 20 years, birders in Ontario conduct a survey of all breeding birds species – including owls and marsh birds – observed and documented throughout the province over a five year period. The goal of this study is to map the distribution and relative abundance of the approximately 300 species of breeding birds in the province, and update the information found in the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas.
As a collaborative undertaking by Ontario Nature, Birds Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service – Ontario Region, Ontario Field Ornithologists, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, and a variety of citizen science-based community groups, the atlas uses a “rigorous approach” to determine the distributions and populations of bird species breeding in Ontario, and changes over time. Locally, members of the Bancroft Field Naturalist Club are participating in the study. As the club’s past-president and avid