Birding

We love to travel to find new birds and participate in a lot of bird counts. We also created a Guide to Birding Field Guides and host a collection of over 300 birding links from all over the globe.

Conservation

While our main focus continues to be birds, we are working to promote other areas of conservation. Conserving land not only benefits wildlife, but is hugely beneficial to people as well.

Outdoors

We love all sorts of outdoor activities, especially hiking and spend a lot of time outside with dogs and horses. We are working to produce more articles on all sorts of outdoor fun!

Photography

Every week we bring you Bird Photography Weekly. We periodically talk about our adventures in digiscoping. Feel free to browse our photo lifelist.

Bird Conservation – Short-billed Dowitcher

September 23, 2008
Article in: Bird Conservation

Despite being a bird of mudflats and saltmarshes, 90% of Short-billed Dowitchers {Limnodromus griseus} breed in the Boreal Forest of Canada. An approximate decline of 50% has gained this fun-to-watch shorebird a spot on the conservation concern list.

Short-billed Dowitcher

The threats facing Short-billed Dowitchers are not fully known, but habitat loss and habitat degradation from oil and gas development and industrial pollution are probable causes.

Conservation Needs

Recent conservation efforts have been successful due to the work of the Boreal Songbird Initiative and in recent news, the Ontario Government has decided to protect 55 million acres of Canadian Boreal Forest.

Using and insisting companies use recycled paper is one way to help protect the Boreal Forest and the Short-billed Dowitcher.

Short-billed Dowitcher {Limnodromus griseus}

Full details on this species and 99 other North American birds at risk can be found in Jeffrey V. Wells’ Birder’s Conservation Handbook.

Short-billed Dowitcher

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Sunday Photo – Shorebirds Find a Fuddle

May 25, 2008
Article in: Updates

In our county we have a general lacking of shorebird habitat. However, when there is a good amount of rain timed right, farm puddles form. These “fuddles” become magnets to shorebirds and thanks to notification by a birder friend, we were able to see two lifer shorebirds for both Birdfreak and Veery {Hudsonian Godwit and Dunlin}.

Hudsonian Godwit, Dunlins, & Short-billed Dowitchers
Hudsonian Godwit, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers
The godwit is in the front by himself, the Dunlins are back left and the dowitchers are the two on the right.

Note: We are out in the field on our 72-hour bird count and will be posting our findings in the upcoming days. Stay tuned!!

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