June 4, 2011
Baby Eastern Loggerhead Shrikes! Almost all of our cages have nestlings already, and those that don’t are just taking their time to make sure they get it right. There was a few weeks there where we sat and watched each cage, as they sat and watched us, while they sat on their eggs – and [...]
May 20, 2011
When winter finally relinquishes its icy grip, when snowdrifts give way to coursing waters and the sun begins to feebly shine, the time to spring into fashion is upon us. This applies not only to sophisticated models strutting catwalks the world over, but also to WPC captive breeding technicians as they go about their daily [...]
May 13, 2011
Since arriving in Grey-Bruce over a month ago, I’ve travelled all over the place searching for signs of eastern loggerhead shrike. The Grey-Bruce area has had only 0-2 confirmed pairs annually for the past 19 years…finding these birds might be a bit of a challenge! Never the less, the goal this season is to get [...]
May 6, 2011
It is hard to believe we have only known each other for one month, and that our loggerhead shrikes only arrived a week ago. Janet is our biologist, Alex is the field assistant – together they monitor the wild population. Ange and Chantal are the captive population technicians – they feed bugs to the birds [...]
