Bald Eagle Festival in BC

The highly-anticipated Fraser River Valley Bald Eagle Festival occurs annually over the third weekend of November (21-22) and works with 15 individual sites to offer a wide variety of activities and adventures from Mission to Chilliwack. The area hosts North America’s third-largest population of over-wintering Bald Eagles, arriving to feast …

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Help BC Waterbirds

Sunday, September 13/09 will mark the start of the 11th year of the British Columbia Coastal Waterbird Survey from Bird Studies Canada. The focus of the program is to record monthly counts of seabirds, waterfowl, and other coastal birds to identify patterns in abundance and assess population trends. Volunteers cover …

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Okanagan Valley Birding Guide Released

The Okanagan Valley is one of Canada’s best birding destinations, and a new guide will help visiting birders enjoy their pilgrimages there. The four naturalist clubs in the Okanagan Valley worked together to publish a 32-page full-colour guide to the Okanagan Valley Birding Trail. Bird Studies Canada’s Senior Project Biologist …

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BC Breeding Bird Atlas On The Road

Join the British Columbia Breeding Bird Atlas team as they tour BC providing workshops, meeting with regional coordinators, doing atlas blitzes, and conducting point counts. Christopher Di Corrado will tour the Dease Lake/Telegraph Creek area from June 8-14, then proceed to Whitehorse (from where activities in some parts of remote …

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