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Birds & Birding
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Ottawa Area
Great Blue Heron
- Local Birding Locations
- Our list of popular birding locations and maps
- World of Birds - The Ottawa Citizen
- Elizabeth Le Geyt of Manotick
(Order of Ontario) has written birding columns since 1973. Send bird reports to 613-821-9880 or elegeyt@rogers.com.
Elizabeth Le Geyt - Ottawa Field Naturalists Club
- Organizes the Christmas bird count
- Rare bird sighting reports 960-9000
- Wild Bird Care Centre
- 828-2849
mojo@wildbirdcarecentre.org
- Injured birds may be taken here. Donations and volunteers are welcome.
Young Green Heron - Injured birds may be taken here. Donations and volunteers are welcome.
- Project Nest Watch
- Collects data on bird nests in Canadian backyards. During the nesting period, record the date, time, nest contents (eggs or birds), geographic location, and nesting habitat. Catherine Poussart 418-649-6062
- Bluebird houses project
- Jim Houston 256-3509
- Report dead birds
- 722-2200
- West Nile Virus information
White-crowned sparrow
Ottawa Valley Bird Counts
Anyone with a bird-feeder can participate in the Ottawa Valley Fall Bird Count the 3rd Saturday in October or the Christmas Bird Count, usually on a Sunday before Christmas. The Ottawa Field Naturalists Club collects local data for a national database used to monitor bird populations.
Young Green Heron
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SUET SEED BLOCK 1 part lard (rendered beef/bacon fat) 1 part peanut butter 2 parts quick cooking oats 2 parts cornmeal 1 part bird seed Melt the lard and peanut butter. Mix in the oats and cornmeal. Add the seed and mix. Form into blocks or spoon into holes in a hanging log. Very popular with birds in winter. |
Links:
Young Green Herons
- Aquatic Birds on the Rideau Waterway
- Environment Canada (ec.gc.ca): Birds
- Birds of the East Coast (Nova Scotia government)
- Birding in Canada
- BorealCanada.ca
- Nature.ca: Invasive species, Rideau Waterway
- WildBirds.com - Ontario Birding
- BirdDay.org
- AmericanBirding.org
- TheBirdGuide.com - Pacific Northwest
- National Wildlife Federation
- Email Tony Beck beck.tony@sympatico.ca about birding courses
- BirdsSongRadio.com listen to bird songs while you work
Northern Shoveler - Collective nouns for Birds (A murder of crows)
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Ontario's bird: Common Loon
Bird Species seen in Ontario: 479 |
| Feed birds in winter and they will eat insects in the summer. |
Manotick Ontario
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