Canada Jay Photo: Jim Richards

Dear Atlasser,

COVID-19: The Atlas team reminds all atlassers to be aware of the latest COVID-19 conditions in Ontario. Please follow all public health guidelines and restrictions, and check for updates frequently. Information on the latest conditions and public health guidance can be found on the Government of Ontario website. Follow the links to the most current situation in the province.

In 2022 and beyond, if COVID protocols and restrictions permit it, we will be focusing a lot of effort on getting atlassers back into northern Ontario, especially into remote areas. Given the lack of data collection in the remote north in 2021, we have some catching up to do.

One of our main priorities is to repeat atlas work done in Atlas-2, from 2001-05, covering the same squares and even a lot of the same point counts. This will primarily involve teams of four people canoeing northern rivers, especially those that pass through the Hudson Bay Lowlands. We are working to subsidize the cost of these trips.

The table below and the map provided here both show nine of the trips we are hoping to run in 2022 and beyond. A more comprehensive list will be available on the Atlas-3 website later this fall. All of the 100-kilometre blocks in northern Ontario must be adequately covered by the end of 2025.

For the nine trips listed here, at least two people in each team of four need to be expert birders capable of doing point counts in remote northern Ontario. And all four need to be experienced campers and canoeists able to work safely in remote wilderness conditions. The trips vary in length from 10 to 17 days on the river, plus time getting to and from the north. Trips will run between mid-June and early July to be at the peak of breeding bird activity.

If you are interested in participating in any of these trips for Atlas-3 — or you have other remote atlassing trips in mind — please visit our website and complete a remote northern atlassing application form providing information about yourself and a trip you would like to do. We will get back in touch with you with the goal of getting as many trips as possible going for 2022 and beyond. We will soon be posting a Northern Atlassing Manual to give you a more complete idea of what northern atlassing entails.

These trips provide a rare opportunity to experience and contribute to the conservation of Ontario’s amazing wilderness. We hope that folks with the right skills will join us for an extraordinary experience and make a valuable contribution to the Atlas project.

Remote Northern Canoe trips

Nine suggested trips are shown on the map and in the table below. If you are interested, please fill out an application form on the website asap.

Trip #	Target Blocks	Location	Suggested Itinerary (based on Atlas-2)	Length of trip (canoe portion)
1	15VV, 15WV	Opasquia Provincial Park	Drive to Vermillion Bay, float-plane to Opasquia Provincial park and back, then drive home.	12 days
2	16DF, 16DG	Fawn and Severn Rivers	Drive to Sioux Lookout, float-plane to Fawn River, canoe down Fawn River, then Severn River, commercial flight from Fort Severn to Sioux Lookout, drive home.	17 days
3	15XA, 15XB	Sachigo River (Upper)	Drive to Nakina, float-plane to upper Sachigo River, canoe downstream, float-plane back out, then drive home.	15 days
4	16CF, 16CG	Sachigo River (Lower)	This trip will be paired with the upper Sachigo Trip. The pick-up flight for the upper trip will bring in the crew for the lower Sachigo trip.	12 days
5	16FC, 16FD	Missisa Lake and River	Drive to Hearst, float-plane to Missisa Lake, paddle to Attawapiskat River, float-plane to Hearst, drive home.	10 days
6	17LT, 17MT	Albany River	Drive to Hearst, float-plane to Albany River, paddle 150 km to Fort Albany, commercial flight to Moosonee, travel to Hearst, drive home.	15 days
7	17MS, 17NS	Moose River	Drive to Cochrane, train to Moose River, paddle to Moosonee, train back to Cochrane, then drive home.	10 days
8	16DB, 16DC	Upper Albany River	Drive to Nakina, float-plane to Fort Hope, paddle downstream, float-plane from Washi Lake to Nakina, then drive home.	10 days
9	16DD, 16DE	Upper Winisk River	Travel to Thunder Bay, commercial flight to Webequie, paddle the upper Winisk River, float-plane to Hearst, travel home. May link this trip to a lower Winisk trip.	15 days

Sappy Hour, November 23, 2021: Atlassing in the remote north

Mark your calendar now. To help get you in the mood for northern adventure, we are devoting the November 23 Sappy Hour to Atlassing in the remote north. Special guest Michael Runtz will provide a 20 minute presentation about his atlassing trip down the Muketei River in the Hudson Bay Lowlands during Atlas-2; Mike Cadman, Mike Burrell and Adam Timpf will provide general information and answer questions about our plans for northern atlassing; Emily Rondel will keep us all in line; and Kaelyn will keep the broadcast running smoothly.

The event will take place on Zoom webinar (register using the link – here) and will also be streamed to Facebook Live (www.facebook.com/ONBreedingBirdAtlas/live). The event will be recorded for those who cannot attend either on Facebook or Zoom and will be available on our YouTube channel.

Square-bashing coming soon!

We are delighted to announce that plans are underway for our first “square-bash” events for Atlas-3 (Covid safety precautions/restrictions permitting). Square-bashes are fun and productive activities focused on filling gaps in atlas coverage. Both are planned for beautiful provincial parks on the Canadian Shield in June of 2022, in areas rich with warblers, thrushes and other “central” Ontario species. At each location, five campsites (maximum 6 people per site) have been set aside for atlassers with no charge for camping. At least some of the sites will be electrical.

The first is to be at Grundy Provincial Park, north of Parry Sound, from Friday, June 10^th to Wednesday, June 15^th, 2022. The second is at Mikisew Provincial Park, near South River, from Friday, June 17^th to Wednesday, June 22^nd, 2022. You could come for the whole 5 days or just part of that time. Our goal is to provide adequate coverage for as many squares as possible in and around each park.

If you are interested in taking in either of these events, please email Kaelyn at atlas@birdsontario.org, telling us which location, what dates work for you, how many people are in your party and whether or not you can do point counts. Please do not contact the parks about these square-bash events as all arrangements are being made through the atlas office.

Hoping you can join us! Thanks to Ontario Parks for making these opportunities available.

Backcountry atlassers wanted in Algonquin

Completing >20 hours of atlassing and >25 point counts during the core period (24 May to 5 July) for the many squares in the interior of Algonquin Provincial Park is very challenging. But for experienced atlassers who are avid canoe campers or backpackers, this area offers beautiful landscapes and excellent birding.

We’re keen to recruit experienced campers to do atlassing in backcountry squares in Algonquin Park that so far have few hours logged during the core period (i.e., <10 hours). If you have a backcountry trip in mind where you can complete at least 20 hours of atlassing in squares that still need hours or you can complete at least 25 in-person or digital point counts in squares that still need them, then we would very much like to hear from you.

If your proposed canoeing or backpacking atlas trip is approved by the Region 27 coordinators and Algonquin Park staff, then your backcountry camping permits will be provided free of charge. To submit a proposed trip plan for review and potential approval, please complete the application form. Please be prepared to provide the number of hours and the number of in-person or digital point counts, if any, you expect to complete in each square you plan to visit during the core period.

Owling in November

If you check the Safe Date charts, you will notice that it is safe to report breeding evidence for Eastern Screech-Owl in November and December, and for Great Horned Owl in December in southern Ontario. Both species are quite vocal at this time of year as they advertise their territories and seek mates. Although November is in the shoulder season for Great Horned Owls (when some are starting breeding behaviours and some are still dispersing), calling birds can be counted as “S” for singing and “T” for Territory. So, to clarify, calling Screech-Owls and Great Horned Owls in November and December can be counted as breeding evidence for the Atlas. Great Horned Owls in November that are not calling should not be given breeding evidence.

Atlasser chip notes

Atlassing Adventures in Wabakimi Summer 2021, by Mhairi McFarlane

Having taken up canoeing on, appropriately, Canada Day in just 2020, the next obvious step was to embark on an 18-day, 300-km wilderness trip in 2021. Although this sounds crazy, we’ve been privileged to have done plenty of wilderness hiking in various parts of the world, and had done two white water canoe training courses and a river rescue course, so we were more prepared than it sounds. It seemed obvious that this was a great opportunity to contribute to Atlas-3. With lots of unknowns around COVID-19 restrictions, there were unlikely to be any organized trips to the north in 2021. We gritted our teeth about feeding the bugs and arranged our dates to coincide with breeding bird season. Two days of driving later, we arrived at Armstrong and were dropped off by an outfitter at the roadside at the south end of Caribou Lake, on June 21, 2021. This was the start of a 300 km adventure that would take us across Wabakimi Provincial Park, down the Misehkow River and along the Albany River to Miminiska Lake, where our outfitter would pick us up in a float plane on July 8^th. We borrowed two Acoustic Recording Units (ARU) and a handheld recording device and I received a great training session from Rich Russell, a wildlife biologist at the Canadian Wildlife Service, over zoom before we left.

All packed up and ready to go: our put-in at the start of our 300 km, 18 day adventure. Caribou Lake Road, June 21, 2021 ©Mhairi McFarlane

I downloaded the Atlas squares we would paddle through to the Gaia GPS app, and attempted to collect data in as many as possible. We had some pretty tough conditions, including headwinds for the first week, which lost us some time, then some rather epic portage clearing, so we had a lot less time and energy to collect data than I’d hoped. It turns out that rolling into camp between 6 and 9 pm is not conducive to early morning starts, so I only managed 2 in-person point counts! We managed to get either one or both of the ARUs out on 13 nights, for a total of 19 recording sessions. Combined with around 135 daytime eBird checklists which I ported over to the atlas, it was pleasing to be able to add some data for quite a few pretty remote squares.

These figures show the general location of our canoe route, north of Lake Nipigon, and a more detailed view of the squares we passed through along the way.

Some species which dominated the soundscape throughout include Northern Waterthrush and White-throated Sparrows, while Tennessee Warblers split our ears along the shrubby banks of the Misehkow in particular. It was a new experience for me to be dive-bombed by Greater Yellowlegs – despite our best efforts to avoid disturbing the many pairs we encountered. The Misehkow area also proved to be quite the Common Goldeneye factory, with the occasional Mallard and American Black Duck too. We came across one probable and one confirmed breeding Trumpeter Swan. One highlight was a flock of 14 American White Pelicans on our very last morning on Miminiska Lake! We came across quite a few sets of Boreal Chickadees, and had several fun encounters with Canada Jays with young of the year in tow.

I always get a kick out of seeing shorebirds up trees! This was one of many very territorial Greater Yellowlegs we came across on the Albany River July 6, 2021 ©Mhairi McFarlane

We enjoyed some great non-bird experiences too of course: we almost lost count of how many American Black Bears and Moose we saw, but we were particularly excited to see Woodland Caribou on two occasions. Both were very distant groups of swimming adults with calves in tow.

In terms of gear, some items we were very grateful to have: “Eureka no-bug zone” bug shelter. Although the biting insects weren’t as bad as they can be, they certainly had their moments and this bug tarp provided some much needed relief during mealtimes. Although we relied on paper maps for navigation, having Gaia GPS app on our phones was very helpful for small-scale route finding, and making sure where the Atlas squares were. We also used our phones for eBird, iNaturalist, and photos, so we appreciated having a couple of battery packs and a “Big Blue” solar charger. Our canoe is an H2O Voyageur 17’, made of innegra-kevlar-epoxy (approximately 25 kg, 55 lbs). Despite low water levels and many associated knocks and scrapes, it performed extremely well on flatwater and rapids alike. It now has many, many battle scars, but no repairs required!

We did not see any other humans at all between day 2 and day 16, so it was a true wilderness experience. Despite the occasional hardships of this trip, I can’t wait to embark on another northern river adventure in 2022, building on what I learned this year and hopefully contributing more data from another part of Ontario’s stunning boreal landscape. You can read more technical details about our trip on the Friends of Wabakimi trip forum page here: https://www.wabakimi.org/trip-report-forum.html (look for “Little Caribou to Miminiska, June/July 2021”).

If you have an interesting discovery or fun story to share from your atlassing that you’d like to share, please send it to atlas@birdsontario.org

Until next time,

– The Atlas-3 Team

The Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas-3 thanks the following for their financial support:

Environment and Climate Change Canada

TD Friends of the Environment Foundation

Vortex

Natural Resource Solutions Inc.,

Hodgson Family Foundation

Baillie Fund

RBC Foundation

Employment and Social Development Canada

(Canada Summer Jobs)

The Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas-3 thanks the following for their in-kind support:

Boreal Avian Modelling Project

Natural Resources Canada

Ontario Parks

Parks Canada

Royal Ontario Museum

Sustainable Forestry Initiative

University of Alberta

Wild Birds Unlimited

WildTrax

Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry

Boreal Chickadee Photo: Scott Leslie

Dear Atlasser,

We hope your summer has gone well and some normalcy is returning despite the continuing concerns around COVID-19. It’s been a very odd start to Atlas-3 with all the travel restrictions and absence of a social component to the project, which is usually so important. Despite this, you atlassers came through like the Canadian Women’s soccer team at the recent Olympic Games, as summarized in the table below.

Data submission deadline is August 31

The main goal for now is to make sure that you get your 2021 atlas data in by the end of August. Having the data in will be very useful so we can see exactly how things went in 2021 and so we can plan effectively for 2022 and beyond. After 2021, it’s all about filling gaps in coverage, so being able to identify and home in on those gaps is crucial.

If you need help with data entry, please contact your Regional Coordinator or Kaelyn at the Atlas “office” at atlas@birdsontario.org. You might also want to attend the August 26^th Sappy Hour which is devoted to atlas data entry.

Long-eared Owl survey data submission

We’re having some challenges getting the LEOW Survey data entry operational. Please hang on to the data for now and we’ll get word out once it’s working. As a result, you don’t have to worry about meeting the August 31 deadline for these data. Our apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.

Your efforts to date

We’re off to a great start and are very close to Atlas-2 levels of participation (see Table 1) – we may well exceed them once all the data are in. With a global pandemic underway, that’s a great credit to you and the Ontario birding community generally. Well done, folks!

Table 1. Comparison of effort in year 1 of Atlas-2 and -3. Note that the data shown for Atlas-3 are partial and yet to be reviewed.

Year	Atlassers	Species	Squares	Records	Point Counts	Hours
Atlas-2 2001	1,145	274	2,526	103,050	5,745	23,494
Atlas-3 2021 (to AUG 10)	1,052	248	2,167	387,817	8,244	31,157

Atlassers: This is the number of people who have submitted data which will probably increase as everyone gets their data in. You can help us to increase participation in 2022 by getting your birding friends to jump on-board. (A greater number of people have registered, but not entered data.)

Species: it’s not surprising that the species count is lower so far in Atlas-3. We had very little effort in the Hudson Bay Lowlands in 2021 due to COVID. Some Far North work was done but the data are yet to be entered. We are looking forward to filling out that list as we expand our coverage throughout the Lowlands in 2022 and beyond.

Squares: Amazingly, even with COVID-related travel restrictions, we got data for almost as many squares as in Atlas-2.

Records: The big jump here is because of the switch to a checklist approach. As you can see, it provides considerably more data, which will be very useful for understanding our breeding bird populations.

Point Counts: An excellent start and well ahead of Atlas-2 when point counts were novel and it took a year for the new concept to catch on. In Atlas-3, point counters were out of the blocks like Andre De Grasse! It’s quite feasible that there are a lot more point count data yet to be submitted – so if you don’t have yours in yet, please get them in ASAP. (This total also doesn’t include the recorded point counts, which won’t be added until the recordings are interpreted).

Hours: Wow!! We are already well ahead of Atlas-2, which is fantastic, especially given the pandemic. Three possible reasons: 1. You are wonderful!, 2. Checklisting encourages you to submit data from short atlassing outings, and 3. the app (and eBird) make it easy to do so. Now that the app is working well, we’re hoping for even more hours of atlassing in 2022!

Some kudos

A big shout out to Dianna Wolfe, whose record of a Ruby-throated Hummingbird nest in Parry Sound made her the 1,000^th atlasser to contribute data.

So far, 8,244 traditional Point Counts have been entered into the system. Seventeen people have done over 100 point counts each, with Krista Oswald (Gold medal), Bob Saunders (Silver) and Kurt Hennige (Bronze) topping the list with 224, 213 and 205 each respectively. Special thanks to them for an amazing effort.

So far this year, there have been 7 Monthly Challenge winners: Lyle Friesen, Luke Raso, Patricia Wray, Theresa McKenzie, Remy Poulin, Toby Rowland, and Luc Fazio. Congratulations to you all, and keep up the great work!

Thanks to everyone who submitted data so far to the atlas. You helped get the project off to a great start. If you still have data from 2021, please make sure you enter it by the end of August!

Quiz: What species is this?

Here is a screen grab from the Atlas web site species maps of one of the following species, based on 2021 data. Can you guess which? Answer is at the bottom of the newsletter.

Green-winged Teal
Red-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Gray Catbird
Magnolia Warbler

That’s all for now, folks!

– The Atlas-3 Team

The Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas-3 thanks the following for their financial support:

Environment and Climate Change Canada

TD Friends of the Environment Foundation

Vortex Canada

Natural Resource Solutions Inc.,

Hodgson Family Foundation

Baillie Fund

RBC Foundation

Employment and Social Development Canada

(Canada Summer Jobs)

The Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas-3 thanks the following for their in-kind support:

Boreal Avian Modelling Project

Natural Resources Canada

Ontario Parks

Parks Canada

Royal Ontario Museum

Sustainable Forestry Initiative

University of Alberta

Wild Birds Unlimited

WildTrax

Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry

Quiz answer:

Yellow-throated Vireo. It’s interesting to see that the pattern of this species’ expected occurrence is already coming though, with bands of records in the Carolinian Region (north of Lake Erie) and the edge of the Canadian Shield (from Kingston to Midland), as well as a few records near Lake-of-the-Woods.

Pied-billed Grebe Photo: Scott Leslie

Dear Atlasser,

We hope your first year of atlassing is going well. Although the point count season is behind us (it ended on July 10), there’s still lots of great atlassing to be done, with some suggestions below! Keep reading for some incredible year one highlights – there will be more to come!

Long-eared Owl survey

The new Long-eared Owl survey runs from July 1 through August 14 and is an enjoyable and productive way to spend a summer night when most other atlas field work is over for the year. It’s an excellent survey for newer atlassers since it’s very straightforward and requires the identification of only one species. The Instruction Manual for these surveys can be found here, but in a nutshell, the protocol is similar to the other special surveys. It involves going out at night to pre-selected locations in a square and simply listening for the begging calls of the young owls, which are quite vocal in encouraging their parents to hurry up with some food. Click here to listen to the begging call of the young.

If you are interested in doing the survey, don’t forget to let your Regional Coordinator (RC) know and good luck! It is our hope that this unique survey (we don’t know of any other extensive surveys of this kind, for this species) will provide us with an unprecedented understanding of this mysterious and elusive bird.

Late season atlassing

July is a great time to focus your efforts on upgrading breeding evidence to probable and confirmed for many species. Check adult birds to see if they are carrying food for young, or a fecal sac, and watch for newly fledged youngsters fluttering around the underbrush. Some late breeders such as American Goldfinch and Cedar Waxwing are nesting now, and many other species can be on second or third nests by this time. With any luck you’ll come across some new species for the square while on an upgrading mission.

Because birds are wrapping up the nesting season and starting to move around, especially later this month, be careful when recording breeding evidence and be sure that any young of the year are incapable of sustained flight before recording them as FY. Some birds such as northern-nesting shorebirds are already starting to move south, and should be recorded as X, unless you have good evidence they are nesting on-site. Check the Safe Date Charts for guidance on this. If the species isn’t listed on a particular chart, then there’s very little likelihood that the bird is nesting in that area.

By the end of July, you can pretty much wrap up atlassing for the year, other than recording any incidental observations of breeding evidence that you come upon, and, of course, the Long-eared Owl survey.

If you did get permission to enter private property to do some atlassing, this might be a good time to write a thank-you note to the landowner. It would be much appreciated and may help you or others get back onto the property in future years.

Atlas data due by August 31

Please submit your Atlas data into NatureCounts as soon as possible. The deadline for year one data submissions is August 31, 2021. Having the data in-hand will help considerably in the review process and in planning for 2022 and beyond. It’s also good practice to get your data entered while it is still fresh in your mind!

We’re really looking forward to summarizing the atlas effort and results from year one and laying out the plan for the rest of the project.

Thanks for your efforts so far

Data from 2021 continues to pour in. As of July 18, 1,003 participants have submitted over 38,000 checklists, and reported over 7,500 point counts. 287 people have done at least 1 traditional point count, and 15 have done more than 100 each! 239 people have already logged 20 or more hours of peak season effort.

With the COVID-19 restrictions, this has been a very different first season for the atlas and we’re hopeful for a more normal year of atlassing in 2022. Fingers crossed that we’ll be able to gather indoors and on birding adventures together to share the atlassing experience.

Some 2021 highlights

There have already been some noteworthy reports to Atlas-3 from our first year of data collection. Such as the following, by Mike Burrell…..

Prairie wormhole spits out Sprague’s Pipit and Lark Bunting!

On the morning of June 15 2021, Peter Hogenbirk and Geoff Carpentier were atlassing in region 40 (Rainy River) north of the town of Pinewood (about halfway between Emo and the town of Rainy River) when Peter heard the distinctive song of a Sprague’s Pipit. They observed the bird displaying for the next fifteen minutes. This bird was very difficult to observe as it displayed very high in the air and disappeared on the ground in a pasture. Peter and Geoff observed it again the next morning and Ethan Quinton, Glenn Coady, and myself observed it again on June 18 and made a recording. It was reported again on June 20 and 21.

This represents the fourth year at least one Sprague’s Pipit has been seen displaying in the Rainy River area (1980, 1990, 1998). Another male displayed during the first year of Atlas-2 near Hudson Bay, 76 kilometers east of Peawanuck.

If getting Sprague’s Pipit for the atlas wasn’t good enough, Ethan Quinton and I managed to get it on a nearby point count! And if THAT wasn’t good enough, just down the road we found a singing male Lark Bunting – another bird of the prairies! It really felt like we had been sucked through a wormhole and ended up in southern Saskatchewan.

Lark Bunting © Mike Burrell

– Mike Burrell, Regional Coordinator for Region 43

And this from Glenn Coady:

The highlight of year one in Region 12 (Toronto) was the nest of a Prothonotary Warbler in the Humber Marshes, found by Owen Strickland on June 1. This is only the second nesting record for the entire GTA, the last occurrence being a nest in Castlederg in Peel Region during Atlas-2.

Prothonotary Warbler © Glenn Coady

– Glenn Coady, Regional Coordinator for Region 46

In other highlight news… For those of us who remember back to Atlas-1, reports of a territorial Henslow’s Sparrow and a Western Meadowlark in southwestern Ontario bring back fond memories of when these birds were considerably more common.

We’ll provide a more complete picture of the year one highlights once all results are in and tallied.

Atlasser chip notes

I moved to Ontario as the province launched Atlas-2, but I was just starting a family so time in the field was limited. Now, for Atlas-3, I’m a principal atlasser in a county square. I’ve always been a “slow” birder, making frequent stops and taking the time to watch bird behaviour, so atlassing suits my birding style. When not in “my” square I’m close to home watching and photographing the birds around me. The “Powerline Trail” is one such local hotspot, that I only came to appreciate as a rewarding birding route fairly recently. Part of the attraction is that it passes through a good variety of habitat in a relatively short distance. Walking along the Powerline Trail takes one through scrubby successional habitat (which is terrific for fall sparrows), mature woodlots, a marsh, and some agricultural fields. It was along the edge on one of those fields that someone had once placed a plastic owl decoy, presumably as a deterrent to crop-hungry birds.

On June 12 I took an evening stroll to bird the trail. Heading north, I had passed the owl without noticing anything unusual but on the return leg I saw a House Wren protruding from the north side of the decoy. As I approached, the wren left the cavity and flew a short distance to shelter. I was then able to see clear evidence of a nest inside the body of the owl. The wren later flew to a nearby fence post, heading back towards the nest. House Wrens don’t excavate their own nest sites so presumably this pair took advantage of an existing hole in the side of the owl. Perhaps an ignominious fate for an owl, plastic or otherwise, but a nice example of the versatility of wren nesting behaviour and just one of many tales that I’m sure we are all collecting while out looking for breeding birds.

House Wren and nest © Andrew Bendall
– Andrew Bendall, Atlasser in Region 47

If you have an interesting discovery or fun story to share from your atlassing that you’d like to share, please send it to atlas@birdsontario.org

That’s owl for now!

– The Atlas-3 Team

The Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas-3 thanks the following for their financial support:

Environment and Climate Change Canada

TD Friends of the Environment Foundation

Vortex

Natural Resource Solutions Inc.,

Hodgson Family Foundation

Baillie Fund

RBC Foundation

Employment and Social Development Canada

(Canada Summer Jobs)

The Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas-3 thanks the following for their in-kind support:

Boreal Avian Modelling Project

Natural Resources Canada

Ontario Parks

Parks Canada

Royal Ontario Museum

Sustainable Forestry Initiative

University of Alberta

Wild Birds Unlimited

WildTrax

Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry

Cedar Waxwings Photo: Mark Peck

COVID-19: The Atlas team reminds all atlassers to be aware of the latest COVID-19 conditions in Ontario. Please follow all public health guidelines and restrictions, and check for updates frequently. Information on the latest conditions and public health guidance can be found on Government of Ontario websites. Follow the links to the most current situation in the province.

Dear Atlasser,

Welcome to the new format for keeping you abreast of Atlas goings-on. Each month, we’ll be sending out short newsletters so that we can provide timely updates to the atlassing community. We need your help naming these monthly reports – please head over to the website to vote for your favourite name!

Atlassing has come a long way since we chiseled our data onto stone tablets in Atlas-1, back in 1981-1985 (not really). Atlas-1 was a magnificent effort by the province’s birding community, but we didn’t have an app devoted to atlassing, or excellent, readily-available, learning resources, and smartphones that can help atlassers in so many ways. The technology has changed considerably from the written data entry from the first Atlas to the development of smartphone apps that can assist volunteers, however, the spirit of the Atlas remains the same – documenting the distribution and relative abundance of every species that breeds in Ontario. No matter how the technology has changed, the key factor to a successful atlas is you, the volunteer!

June is the peak of the breeding season and atlassing activity. Almost every bird out there is involved in breeding activities, and are fair game for atlassers. If you haven’t started atlassing yet, please don’t hesitate any longer. It’s an amazingly short season, and we only have 5 of them, so it really is time for the fun to begin. Things get noticeably quieter in early July and are largely done by the end of that month.

If you’re already scouring the bushes, thanks very much and we hope it is going well. Here are a few statistics on where things currently stand…

As of June 23, 928 participants have submitted over 27,000 checklists, and documented over 20,000 hours of atlassing. If you want to see for yourself how things are progressing, you can view the data on NatureCounts by clicking on Explore and the Atlas Data Summary.
Ottawa atlassers (Region 24 – known, justifiably perhaps, as “The mighty 24”!) are leading the pack in terms of numbers of checklists submitted (2,162 as of June 23), barely ahead of Peterborough (1,955), with Kingston (1,568) and Simcoe (1,546) close behind.
We’ll mention a couple of outstanding individual efforts for inspirational purposes… Don “look at him go” Sutherland has already submitted 643 checklists! And David and Reagan “what a team” Goodyear have put in 245 hours of atlassing! It’s wonderful to see such fantastic efforts on behalf of the project.

Atlassing Resources:

The Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas website (www.birdsontario.org) is where you’ll find everything you need to know to participate in Atlas-3.

Guides: The Atlas-3 manuals can be found on the Instructions & Forms page (for General Atlassing and Point Counts), or on the Special Surveys page (for those doing surveys on Owls, Nightjars, or Marshbirds). These manuals provide the instructions needed to participate in the Atlas. For quick lookup of some of the Coding Sheets in the manuals, the Atlas-3 website also has pages dedicated to Breeding Codes, Safe Breeding Dates, and Species 4-letter Codes.
Learning Resources: The Atlas-3 website has gathered resources on the Learning Resources page, which may help those looking to improve their bird identification skills. Atlassers can also test their knowledge with the Atlas-3 Quiz. Or, if Atlassers have any questions, they can use the Discussion Forum or reach out to their Regional Coordinator.
Atlassing Articles: The Articles provide important identification and breeding information for select species.

NatureCounts is the database where Atlas-3 data are collected and managed. The NatureCounts web portal is linked to the Atlas website, but contains resources and summaries that are specific to data collection.

Data Summaries: The NatureCounts Summary Statistics allow users to view the number of hours, species, or checklists in a Region or Square. The Coverage Map presents a visual representation of the Summary Statistics – showing how many species, hours, and checklists have been completed. The Coverage Map also shows important location information, including region boundaries, and designated priority squares. The Species Map shows where species have been observed, along with the highest breeding evidence recorded.
Resources: The Square Resources page of NatureCounts allows you to download the square map, geographic information (square boundary and point count locations), as well as the Square Summary sheet – which shows the highest breeding evidence of each species during Atlas-2 and Atlas-3 for that particular square. The Atlas Resources page contains important documents, including the Landowner permission letter (this page requires that you log in to NatureCounts).
NatureCounts app: The newest version of the NatureCounts App has been responding much better than previous releases, and we have addressed several outstanding bugs and made improvements throughout. One major new feature is the ability to record precise locations for individual species records. Please use this feature for all significant species records. For more information on how this works, please watch this YouTube walkthrough.
One outstanding issue (mainly in iOS, much more rarely in Android) is that the App will sometimes terminate while in the background. For instance, if you close your phone, you may come back and find that you need to reopen your app, and find your checklist in the drafts. This also terminates the GPS track, unfortunately. This is largely tied to the device trying to reduce your battery usage by shutting down the app while it collects your GPS track in the background. This may happen more frequently when the battery level gets depleted.
If you have any questions or comments regarding the app please fill out the NatureCounts App feedback form (www.birdscanada.org/app-feedback). As always, you can still record your data in your notebook and submit directly through the web portal or import data from eBird.

Video Resources: The Atlas-3 YouTube channel has many useful video resources. This is where the recordings from Sappy Hours can be found, as well as the recordings from the Atlas-3 Virtual Launch event. In addition to event recordings, the Atlas-3 YouTube channel has many tutorial videos, including how to submit data, how to conduct digital point counts, and more.

Beyond the Basics:

Point Count season is underway. Point Counts are the primary means we will use to map the relative abundance of the birds. They can be conducted starting May 24 in the south and June 1 in the north and run until July 10. See the Instructions for Point Counts for details of methodologies. For those who don’t like to read (), videos at the following links explain various aspects of point counts:

Data entry using the app (Basic protocol)
Data entry on the website (Basic protocol)
Data entry on the website (Advanced protocol)
How to do Digital point counts
How to upload Digital point counts

Special Surveys are also underway. The Marshbird Survey has the same season as point counts, and the Nightjar Survey runs from June 15 to July 15. Both surveys will provide a wealth of new information on the status and distribution of groups of birds that are of great conservation interest but not well covered by traditional bird surveys. Marshbird surveys can only be run by those able to ID birds by their calls whereas the Nightjar Survey is well suited to newer birders (though enjoyable for all).

Atlasser Chip Notes

This is where we provide a short note from an atlasser on an atlas-related topic. This month’s entry is from Roxane Filion describing her first attempts to use the Zooms H2N recorder to record a point count:

We all know how important the Boreal Forest is for breeding birds but monitoring changes in abundance for the species that rely on it to breed is a challenge. Not only due to the vastness of it, but the low population density also means fewer volunteer birders for collecting valuable data. When the Zoom H2n recording unit was presented to atlassers as a means to record digital point counts in squares that wouldn’t get the traditional point count coverage, I was interested; but found myself quickly intimidated by the instruction manual and the settings; technology is not my cup of tea! But this device offers the potential to increase coverage and help create accurate relative abundance maps for species in Northern Ontario – a goal that is dear to my heart; I had to give it a try!

After reading the instructions and watching the tutorial video, I set my alarm; it was time to find out if someone who still struggles with a tv remote could successfully operate one of these units. I headed for the nearest trail for a test. It was very easy to set up, at ear level, on a branch, a trunk, or a tripod. On my very first test, when it came time to record my info, I wasn’t ready: I forgot my square number, and the date, and I was scrambling with my map and phone to find the coordinates, but none of that mattered since I forgot to hit the record button before enunciating my info. But hey, that’s what practice is for, right? Since I went through the whole process once, the rest went smoothly. When I got home, I listened to the recordings with earphones (ouch!) I thought I was being quiet but some of the noise I made hurt my eardrums; I felt bad for the people analysing these recordings. Next time, no nylon wind jacket, no moving my feet, no looking in my pocket for a pen, and no holding a sheet of paper.

The next morning, I was ready! I went out early (Just before sunrise = the optimal time to start Point Counts) I recorded 9 digital point counts before 8:45 am when I stopped since the songs slowed down quite a bit. At one point I noticed the “surround” settings had shifted so I had to reset it (using the sheet). Once I got home, I downloaded the files to my computer and transferred them to Wildtrax’s Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas folder using FileZilla.

Overall, this unit is easier to use than it looks and the protocol to follow is straightforward. If you live anywhere in the province but especially north of Gravenhurst, and you are interested in recording digital point counts with these units during a few mornings, contact your Regional Coordinator. Your RC will let you know if there are squares in need of point counts in your region and can lend you one of these handy little devices.

My top 7 tips:

1. Watch the YouTube Tutorial on Recording Digital Point Counts.

2. Print the little one-page “cheat sheet” guide (and bring it with you to check the settings a few times in the field!)

3. Set all the Zoom H2n settings at home, including the date and time, microphone settings, etc.

4. Have your info handy before speaking it: Name + Month, day, year + Time & Time zone + Square # & point # (or square # and UTM or Lat-Long for off-road Point Counts).

5. Do a practice recording first and listen to it with earphones to make sure you are being as quiet as a sleeping Great Gray Owl.

6. Wear cotton or wool or any comfy ‘quiet’ clothes that will permit you to lift your arm to remove the mosquito on your cheek without hurting the analyst’s eardrum.

7. Bring extra batteries, be safe and enjoy the morning!

It’s a great opportunity to contribute valuable data to the Atlas without having to identify all the birds you hear! And later on, when you look at the relative abundance maps for your favourite warbler, you know you’ll have played a little role in creating them while enjoying the morning chorus.

Stay safe,

Your Atlas-3 Team

The Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas-3 thanks the following for their financial support:

Environment and Climate Change Canada

TD Friends of the Environment Foundation

Vortex

Natural Resource Solutions Inc.,

Hodgson Family Foundation

Baillie Fund

RBC Foundation

Employment and Social Development Canada

(Canada Summer Jobs)

The Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas-3 thanks the following for their in-kind support:

Boreal Avian Modelling Project

Natural Resources Canada

Ontario Parks

Parks Canada

Royal Ontario Museum

Sustainable Forestry Initiative

University of Alberta

Wild Birds Unlimited

WildTrax

Jaseur d’Amérique Photo: Mark Peck

COVID-19: L’équipe de l’Atlas tient à rappeler à tous les atlasseurs de s’informer des dernières conditions reliées à la COVID-19 en Ontario. Veuillez suivre toutes les directives et restrictions en matière de santé publique et vérifier fréquemment les mises à jour. Vous trouverez de l’information sur les conditions les plus récentes et des conseils en matière de santé publique sur les sites Web du gouvernement de l’Ontario. Suivez les liens pour connaître la situation la plus récente.

Cher participant(e) à l’Atlas,

Voici le nouveau format pour vous tenir au courant des activités reliées à l’Atlas. Chaque mois, nous envoyerons de courts bulletins d’information dans le but de fournir des mises à jour à la communauté d’atlasseurs. Nous avons besoin de votre aide pour nommer ces bulletins mensuels – rendez-vous sur le site Web pour voter pour votre nom préféré!

L’Atlas a fait du chemin depuis que nous devions ciseler nos données sur des tablettes de pierre lors de l’Atlas-1 en 1981-1985 (on plaisante!). Altas-1 à été un effort prodigieux de la communauté d’amateurs d’oiseaux mais nous n’avions pas accès à une application consacrée à l’atlas, ni à la panoplie de ressources d’apprentissage que nous avons aujourd’hui, ni aux appareils mobiles qui aident les atlasseurs de bien des façons. Bien que la technologie ait évolué considérablement au fil des années, en passant des données transcrites à la main jusqu’à la création d’application pour téléphone mobile, l’essence même de l’Atlas demeure la même – documenter la distribution et l’abondance relative de chaque espèce qui niche en Ontario. Cependant, peu importe à quel point la technologie évolue, l’élément clé pour un atlas réussi c’est vous, les bénévoles!

Juin constitue l’apogée de la saison de nidification et de la collecte de données de l’atlas. Presque tous les oiseaux qu’on croise démontrent des comportements reliés à la reproduction et sont donc prêts à être documentés. Si vous n’avez pas encore commençé, n’hésitez pas plus longtemps. La saison de reproduction est étonnamment courte et nous n’en avons que 5 – alors que le plaisir commence! Les activités de reproduction deviennent beaucoup plus calmes au début de juillet et se terminent presqu’entièrement par la fin de juillet.

Si vous parcourez déjà le terrain, merci beaucoup; nous espérons que tout se déroule bien. Voici quelques statistiques intéressantes:

En date du 23 juin, 928 participants ont entré plus de 27 000 listes d’observation et documenté plus de 20 000 heures de collecte de données. Vous pouvez consulter la progression de l’atlas par vous même sur le site de NatureCounts en choisissant «Explorer» et «Résumé de l’Atlas»
Les atlasseurs d’Ottawa (Région 24 – aussi connue, à juste titre, sous le nom «Le formidable 24»!) sont en tête du peloton dans la catégorie du nombre de listes d’observation (2162 en date du 23 juin) à peine devant la région de Peterborough (1955) suivi de près par Kingston (1568) et Simcoe (1546).
À titre d’inspiration, soulignons aussi quelques efforts individuels exceptionnels: Don « regardez-le aller » Sutherland a déjà entré 643 listes d’observation! Et David et Reagan « quelle équipe! » Goodyear ont effectué 245 heures de collecte de données. C’est merveilleux de voir de tels efforts déployés pour ce projet.

Ressources:

Vous trouverez tout ce dont vous avez besoin pour participer à l’Atlas-3 sur le site Web de l’Atlas des oiseaux nicheurs de l’Ontario (www.birdsontario.org/?lang=fr)

Guides: Les manuels d’instruction de l’Atlas-3 se trouvent sur la page Instructions et formulaires (pour les observations générales et les points d’écoute), ou sur la page Relevés spéciaux (pour les relevés de chouettes et hiboux, des engoulevents, ou des oiseaux de marais). Ces guides renferment les instructions nécessaires pour participer à l’Atlas. Pour un accès rapide à quelques uns des formulaires clés, le site offre les codes d’indices de nidification, le calendrier des dates sûres et des périodes de reproduction, ainsi que les codes d’espèces de 4 lettres.
Ressources d’apprentissage: Le site de l’Atlas-3 vous propose un ensemble de ressources d’apprentissage qui peuvent être utiles pour ceux qui désirent améliorer leurs habiletés d’identification des oiseaux. Les atlasseurs peuvent aussi mettre leurs connaissances à l’épreuve avec le Jeu-questionnaire de l’Atlas-3. De plus, les atlasseurs peuvent poser leurs questions sur le forum de discussion ou contacter leur coordonatrice/coordonateur régional.
Publications pour participants à l’Atlas: Les articles fournissent de l’information utile sur l’identification et la nidification de certaines espèces cibles.

NatureCounts est la base de données où les données de l’atlas sont rassemblées et gérées. Le portail Web de NatureCounts est relié au site Web de l’Atlas, mais contient les ressources et les sommaires spécifiques à la collecte de données.

Sommaires des données: Les résumés des statistiques de l’atlas permettent aux participants de consulter le nombre d’heures, d’espèces ou de listes d’observation dans une région ou une parcelle. La carte de couverture offre une représentation visuelle des statistiques, montrant combien d’espèces, d’heures et de listes d’observation ont été accomplies. Cette carte affiche également des informations importantes au sujet des emplacements tels les limites géographiques des régions d’atlas et l’emplacement des parcelles prioritaires. La carte de répartition présente les lieux où les espèces ont été observées ainsi que l’indice de nidification le plus probant qui a été enregistré.
Ressources: La page Ressources de parcelles d’atlas vous premet de télécharger la carte d’une parcelle, les informations géographiques (frontières de parcelle et emplacements des stations de points d’écoute) ainsi que le résumé de parcelle qui montre l’indice de nidification le plus élevé pour chaque espèce observée lors de l’Atlas-2 et l’Atlas-3 pour une parcelle particulière. La page Ressources de l’Atlas contient des documents importants comme la lettre de demande d’accès aux propriétaires fonciers (vous devez être connecté à votre compte pour avoir accès à cette page)
L’application NatureCounts: La dernière version de l’appli NatureCounts fonctionne mieux que les versions précédentes; nous avons corrigé plusieurs pépins et apporté une série d’améliorations. Un des ajouts majeurs est la capacité d’ajouter l’emplacement précis pour une espèce individuelle. S’il-vous-plait, utilisez cette fonction pour entrer les coordonnées précises de toutes les observations d’espèces désignées importantes. Pour plus d’information, ce tutoriel YouTube vous présente les étapes à suivre.
Une difficulté qui persiste toutefois (en particulier pour les appareils iOS et plus rarement pour certains appareils de type Android) est l’arrêt complet de l’appli lorsque celle-ci est reléguée à l’arrière-plan. Par exemple, lorsque vous éteignez votre téléphone mobile, vous devez relancer l’appli et votre liste d’observation en cours pourrait se retrouver dans le dossier brouillon. Ceci provoque malheureusement l’arrêt de l’enregistrement du trajet GPS. Cette complication est due en grande partie à l’appareil qui tente de réduire l’épuisement de la pile en arrêtant l’appli pendant l’enregistrement de votre piste GPS en arrière-plan. Ceci est plus fréquent lorsque la pile s’épuise.
Si vous avez des questions ou commentaires concernant l’application NatureCounts, veuillez remplir le formulaire suivant: (https://www.birdsontario.org/app-feedback/) Vous pouvez aussi noter vos observations dans un carnet et les soumettre directement par l’entremise du portail Web ou transposer vos listes d’observation d’eBird (en anglais)

Ressources vidéo: La chaîne YouTube de l’Atlas-3 offre une variété de tutoriels utiles. Vous y trouverez les enregistrements des sessions Sappy Hours ainsi que les sessions présentées lors du lancement virtuel de l’Atlas-3. De plus, la chaîne YouTube de l’Atlas-3 offre plusieurs tutoriels, y compris l’entrée des données, les points d’écoute par enregistrement numérique, et bien plus encore.

Au delà des relevés de base:

La saison des points d’écoute est en cours. Les points d’écoute forment l’élément clé qui permet à l’Atlas de cartographier l’abondance relative des espèces à travers la province. Ceux-ci peuvent être réalisés à partir du 24 mai au sud et du 1^er juin au nord de la province, et se poursuivent jusqu’au 10 juillet. Les méthodes détaillées pour les points d’écoute se retrouvent sur la page suivante https://www.birdsontario.org/instructions/?lang=fr. Pour ceux qui n’aiment pas lire (), les tutoriels suivants démontrent les aspects variés des points d’écoute:

Certains relevés spéciaux sont aussi en cours. L’Inventaire des oiseaux de marais s’effectue au courant de la même saison que les points d’écoute, et l’Inventaire des engoulevents se déroule du 15 juin au 10 juillet. Ces deux relevés fourniront une variété de nouveaux renseignements sur l’état et la répartition de ces groupes d’oiseaux envers lesquels nous portons un intéret particulier pour la conservation, mais qui ne font pas l’objet d’étude suffisante lors des relevés aviaires traditionnels. L’inventaire des oiseaux de marais peut être accompli uniquement par des participants capables d’identifier les oiseaux par leurs sons, tandis que le relevé d’engoulevents convient aux ornithologues amateurs débutants (quoiqu’il est plaisant pour les participants de tous les niveaux)

Notes de l’atlasseur

Nous présentons ici une note de la part d’un atlasseur sur un sujet relié à l’atlas. Pour ce mois-ci, Roxane Filion nous décrit ses premières tentatives avec l’appareil Zoom H2N pour enregistrer un point d’écoute numérique:

«Nous savons tous à quel point la foret boréale nord-ontarienne est vitale pour les oiseaux nicheurs mais évaluer les changements dans l’état des espèces qui en dépendent pour se reproduire est un défi de taille; non seulement en raison de son immensité, mais la faible densité de population signifie que très peu de miroiseurs bénévoles y sont présents pour recueillir les données indispensables. Lorsque l’appareil Zoom H2N a été présenté aux atlasseurs comme un moyen d’enregistrer les points d’écoute dans les parcelles dont la couverture n’obtiendra pas le nombre suffisant de points d’écoute traditionnels, j’ai trouvé ça interessant mais j’ai vite été intimidé par le manuel d’instructions et les paramètres multiples; la technologie n’est pas mon truc. Cependant, cet appareil offre la possibilité de créer des cartes d’abondance relative plus précises pour les espèces du nord de l’Ontario – un objectif qui me tient à coeur. J’ai dû l’essayer.

Après avoir lu les instructions et visionner le tutoriel vidéo, j’ai réglé mon réveil; il était temps de découvrir si quelqu’un qui éprouve des difficultés avec une télécommande de télévision peut utiliser cet appareil et obtenir un enregistrement de qualité suffisante. Je me suis rendue dans le sentier le plus près pour un test. L’installation de l’appareil à la hauteur de mon oreille sur une branche, un tronc ou un trépied était facile. Lors de mon tout premier essai, lorsqu’est venu le temps d’énoncer mon information, je n’étais pas prête: j’ai oublié le numéro de parcelle et la date, et je tentais de trouver l’emplacement sur la carte; mais tout cela était sans importance vu que j’avais aussi oublié d’appuyer sur le bouton d’enregistrement. Voilà l’utilité d’un exercice! Les tests suivants se sont bien déroulés. De retour à la maison, j’ai fait l’écoute de mes enregistrements à l’aide d’écouteurs (aïe!) J’étais assurée de mon silence mais en réalité, j’ai fait tellement de bruit que mon ouïe en a souffert. La prochaine fois, je laisse derrière ma veste en nylon, je ne bougerai pas mes pieds, je ne chercherai pas de stylo dans mes poches et ne tiendrai pas de feuille de papier.

Le lendemain, j’étais prête très tôt- le moment optimal pour débuter les points d’écoute est juste avant le lever du soleil. J’ai pu enregistrer 9 points d’écoute avant 8:45. À un moment donné, j’ai remarqué que le paramètre “surround” a été accidentellement déplaçé alors j’ai dû le régler à nouveau à l’aide de l’aide-mémoire. De retour à la maison, j’ai téléchargé les fichiers audio et les ai transposés dans le dossier de l’Atlas de Wildtrax à l’aide du programme FileZilla.

Bref, cet appareil est plus facile à utiliser qu’il paraît et la marche à suivre est simple. Si vous habitez une région peu peuplée, surtout au nord de Gravenhurst, et que vous êtes intéressé à effectuer ces enregistrements, communiquez avec votre coordonatrice ou coordonnateur régional. Votre CR vous indiquera s’il y a des parcelles cibles qui pourraient en bénéficier dans votre région et peut vous prêter l’enregistreur numérique.

Conseils:

Visionnez le tutoriel YouTube sur l’enregistrement de points d’écoute numériques.
Imprimez l’Aide Mémoire (et apportez-le avec vous pour vérifier les paramètres à quelques reprises sur le terrain)
Réglez les paramètres du Zoom H2N à la maison, y compris la date et l’heure.
Soyez prêt pour l’énonciation avec votre information à la portée de la main : nom, date, heure, numéro de parcelle et numéro du point d’écoute (ou coordonnés UTM ou latitude et longitude pour un point d’écoute hors-route).
Faites d’abord un enregistrement d’essai et écoutez-le à l’aide d’écouteurs pour vous assurer que vous êtes aussi silencieux qu’une Chouette lapone qui dort.
Portez du coton, de la laine ou des vêtements confortables et « silencieux » qui vous permettront de lever le bras pour chasser un moustique sans nuire aux tympans de l’analyste.
Apportez des piles supplémentaires. Soyez prudent et profitez de la matinée!

Quelle belle occasion de collaborer et fournir des données vitales au projet même si on ne peut identifier tous les oiseaux entendus! Et, plus tard, lorsque vous contemplerez les cartes d’abondance relative pour votre paruline préférée, vous aurez la satisfaction d’avoir joué un role dans la création de ces cartes tout en appréciant la symphonie matinale des oiseaux.

Meilleures salutations,

L’équipe de l’Atlas-3

L’Atlas des oiseaux nicheurs de l’Ontario remercie les organismes suivants pour leur soutien financier:

Environnement et changement climatique Canada

TD Friends of the Environment Foundation

Vortex

Natural Resource Solutions Inc.,

Hodgson Family Foundation

Baillie Fund

RBC Foundation

Employment and Social Development Canada

(Canada Summer Jobs)

L’Atlas des oiseaux nicheurs de l’Ontario remercie les organismes suivants pour leur soutien logistique:

Boreal Avian Modelling Project

Ressources naturelles Canada

Parcs Ontario

Parcs Canada

Musée Royale de l’Ontario

Sustainable Forestry Initiative

University of Alberta

Wild Birds Unlimited

WildTrax

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