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...
by Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery | Aug 10, 2018 | Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike |
It has been an exciting week on the Napanee Limestone Plains in Ontario. Our first batch of conservation-reared eastern loggerhead shrikes arrived, acclimated for 10 days, and were released to the wild. These shrikes are an integral part of the Eastern Loggerhead...
by Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery | Jun 8, 2018 | Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike, Species at Risk, Uncategorized |
One of the main activities of spring is finding this year’s loggerhead shrikes. Shrikes are philopatric; they return to the same habitat patches year after year, so the easiest way to find a shrike is to go where they have been before. To establish our breeding...
by Hazel Wheeler | May 4, 2018 | Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike |
Every spring, the Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery program brings together a talented team of biologists to meet the needs of a busy field season. They spend their spring and summer scouting for shrikes throughout southern Ontario, searching for nests, and releasing...
by Hazel Wheeler | Apr 11, 2018 | Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike, Species at Risk |
Exciting news comes out of Indiana today, with the report of a colour-banded Loggerhead Shrike seen near Dunkirk, IN! From the colour bands, we know that this is a bird that was hatched in Ontario at the Mountsberg shrike breeding facility in 2015, and was...
by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Dec 6, 2017 | Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike |
by Hazel Wheeler, Lead Biologist, Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Program After years of working with shrike, I’ve noticed that nothing is ever as straightforward as I hope it to be. Around the WPC office, we’ve dubbed this the “Shrike Effect”;...
