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An Important Reminder

  Carden | December 5, 2012

The five month long Loggerhead Shrike breeding season can be challenging for some field staff who are contracted by Wildlife Preservation Canada, but despite the demanding aspects of the season, staff have the opportunity to enjoy jubilant, nearly euphoric moments when they witness small successes that may help lead to the recovery of the species. [...]

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Migrating South

  elsr | September 18, 2012

What a way to start a week!  One of the first emails I opened this morning was from a birder in northern Virginia who had spotted a banded shrike at the Occoquan National Wildlife Refuge.  Lucky for us, he had snapped a number of photos and we were able to read the complete band combination, [...]

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Why Shrikes Depend on Beef

  Jessica Steiner | September 12, 2012

I was recently invited to speak to City of Kawartha Lake officials about our Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery Program as part of a VIP Agricultural Tour.  It may not seem like an obvious fit at first, but shrike recovery is inextricably linked to the cattle grazing industry – with natural short-grasslands becoming scarce, grazers are [...]

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So long, and thanks for all the worms!

  Napanee | August 17, 2012

Twenty-two captive bred shrikes have been released in the Napanee area to date! Survivorship has been good so far, with >90% of birds being accounted for right up to the first week of August.  As summer progresses and the goldenrod fades, we expect to see fewer and fewer juveniles as they succumb to the urge [...]

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Shirke Releases in Carden

  Carden | August 2, 2012

Forecasters claimed that July 17th was the “hottest day of the year” throughout much of Southern Ontario, but ask anyone in the Carden area and they’ll tell you that July was not only a hot month, but one of the driest in recent memory.  To shallow soil plant’s, rancher’s, and farmer’s despair, there were only [...]

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Here they are! And there they go…

  Napanee | July 20, 2012

 Yes, they are finally here! The first of the captive-reared young shrikes arrived in Napanee on July 1st.  And, they were released on July 15th… Young shrikes come to us when they are about  37 to 46 days of age – in other words, 3 to 5 weeks after they fledge. Shrikes spend the first [...]

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Close Encounters of the Bear Kind

  Carden | July 9, 2012

  For three technicians with limited bear experience, the extent of which has been limited to seeing them fleeing in the opposite direction of moving vehicles or nuisance bears in campgrounds, this has certainly been the spring of the black bear.  Most of the encounters in Carden have been tame, most being the operative word.  [...]

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Grey-Bruce and Manitoulin: It’s a win-win.

  Grey-Bruce | July 7, 2012

Some days, I think looking for shrikes is like the most challenging game of hide-and-seek ever played. Which is why it’s so rewarding when you ‘get’ one – you may not receive a medal, but you feel like a winner nonetheless. We’ve had a great season on the Peninsula and Manitoulin. Between surveys by volunteers, [...]

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What’s for Dinner?

  ellen | June 21, 2012

In the shrike breeding aviary at Mountsberg Wildlife Centre, looks like it is snake buffet! The real question is, how did a little bird, the size of a robin, tackle and impale this huge garter snake?

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Doing the math…

  Napanee | June 20, 2012

The ‘magic’ number of 2.1 stood out for me as I listened to a CBC broadcast about population growth in Canada while travelling from Carden to Napanee recently. Apparently, this is the average number of children per woman required to hold the human population constant. It does vary due to mortality rates and sex ratio [...]

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