Taxidermy for Birders: Birding the Canadian Museum of Nature

Hello everyone and welcome to my inaugural post for the Bird Canada blog!  My name is David Pugh and I’m a birder from Calgary, Alberta who writes a blog named, with shocking originality, “A Calgary Birder”.  If you would like to know a little more about me there is a …

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Citrine Wagtail Continues in the Comox Valley

Citrine Wagtail - George Bowron

It’s not often that one sees a once in a lifetime “life bird” like the citrine wagtail (Motacilla citreola) that showed up way back in November, 2012 alongside an unremarkable farm field road on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Found by local Comox Valley birder Dave Routledge, this second North American and …

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Wednesday Wings: Tree Tops

At the back of our yard, we have a cluster of four fully mature white spruce trees – my own little boreal forest. These trees are about 50 feet high, and not surprisingly, a favorite perch of many birds. I know I’ve got a ruby-crowned kinglet in the back yard …

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Wingless Wednesday

These photos were taken in my yard on April 16, 2011. I am running out of adjectives to describe our ‘spring’ weather, but I’m sure the robins, tree sparrows, house sparrows, dark-eyed juncos, nuthatches, northern flickers, house finches, black-capped chickadees, mourning doves, blue jays, black-billed magpies and red-winged blackbirds in …

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