by Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery | Aug 12, 2019 | Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike, Species at Risk
Greetings from Napanee, Ontario It is an exciting time to be part of the eastern loggerhead shrike recovery team. In mid-July, we received our first group of captive-bred loggerhead shrike fledglings, so for the past couple weeks we have been busy preparing them to be...
by Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery | Jun 18, 2019 | Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike
Hello readers, Kayla Villeda reporting to you from Napanee, Ontario. I am this year’s Napanee shrike biologist for the Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery Program. I am proud to say that this is my second year working for Wildlife Preservation Canada, having...
by Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery | Aug 27, 2018 | Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike, Species at Risk
The 2018 eastern loggerhead shrike field season is coming to an end on the Napanee Limestone Plains. The year has been a resounding success! Over the course of five months, we watched seven wild pairs nest and raise young and released 57 conservation reared shrikes....
by Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery | Aug 22, 2018 | Loggerhead Shrike
Greetings from Carden, ON! It’s that time of year again where the responsibilities of the loggerhead shrike teams switch gears from monitoring of wild pairs to the care of conservation-bred fledglings in the field site aviaries. Now that the beginning of August...
by Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery | Aug 18, 2018 | Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike
Part of the field work at the Napanee and Carden sites is to visit nesting sites every 3-5 days to monitor the development of the chicks and success of the nests. Though it is important not to anthropomorphize the shrikes that we watch, it is apparent that each bird...
