Breeding Bird Atlas

Do you want a fun way to help gather useful and important information about breeding birds of BC?  Check out the BC Breeding Bird Atlas at http://www.birdatlas.bc.ca/

This website is an extremely useful tool for researchers trying to figure out exactly what these BC birds are doing during the breeding season, and how they are using habitat.  Also, birds just happen to be great indicators of environmental health and climate change!  So by gathering as much information as we can about them, we end up learning a lot about environment and climate.

If you register for the atlas, you can survey a certain area and note down which birds are breeding in that area.  All the information from surveyors will be compiled onto the website for easy access.  They also include trends for certain bird species, whether they are in decline or not.

So check this website out!  It won't disappoint.

The Great Migration Begins!

Well, very soon Vancouver will start seeing some migratory birds coming in!  These birds may just be coming up from Washington and Oregon or, more likely, they are making an epic journey up from Mexico and South America.  One of the smallest of these migrants, the little Rufous Hummingbird, makes one of the longest trips and will be very hungry when he arrives.  So to welcome these tiny birds, let's start putting out hummingbird feeders.  You can buy nectar formula in a store but it's super easy to make your own!  The trick is to mix 1 part sugar with 4 parts water and voila, cheap and easy hummer food.

To make the most of your nectar, put it in a red hummingbird feeder; that is the colour these birds are most attracted to.  And finally, refill!  Once the hummers learn that there is food to be had in your yard, they will keep stopping by to fill up.  Be a good hummer host and keep your feeders full!

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Check back soon for information about how you can directly help birds living and nesting in your backyard!