Birds & Birding

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Ottawa Area

Wild Bird Care Centre

828-2849 mojo@wildbirdcarecentre.org

Injured birds may be taken here. Donations and volunteers are welcome.

World of Birds

Terrific photo gallery

Manotick's Elizabeth Le Geyt has written a birding column for The Ottawa Citizen since 1973! Send your bird sighting details to 821-9880 or elegeyt@rogers.com.

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

Ottawa Field Naturalists Club

Rare bird sighting reports 960-9000

Organizes the Christmas bird count

Bluebird houses project

Jim Houston 256-3509

Report dead birds

722-2200

West Nile Virus information

Ottawa Valley Bird Counts

Anyone with a bird-feeder can participate in the Ottawa Valley Christmas Bird Count, usually on a Sunday before Christmas. There is a Fall Bird Count the third Saturday in October as well. The Ottawa Field Naturalists Club collects local data for a national database used to monitor bird populations.

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.

Ontario's bird: Common Loon
Species of birds seen in Ontario: 479

Links:

• 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

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Feed birds in the winter and they will eat insects in the summer.

7 million birds die in the U.S. every year from lawn-care chemicals.

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