by Jane Hudecki | May 10, 2019 | Loggerhead Shrike, Species at Risk
Today is World Migratory Bird Day, where we celebrate the perilous, fantastic, and awe-inspiring feat of avian migration! For those of us at Wildlife Preservation Canada, spring is a time for celebration; migratory birds like the eastern loggerhead shrike are...
by Jane Hudecki | Apr 10, 2019 | Loggerhead Shrike, Species at Risk
Yesterday was packed with excitement- in the early afternoon of Tuesday, April 9th we received a call from a citizen scientist with the first confirmed 2019 sighting of a loggerhead shrike in Ontario! The individual was spotted near our Napanee release site in the...
by Jane Hudecki | Apr 5, 2019 | Loggerhead Shrike, Species at Risk
Welcome to my very first blog post! My name is Jane Hudecki and I am incredibly excited to join Wildlife Preservation Canada as the Shrike Conservation Breeding Coordinator, where I’ll be working with the recovery team on the Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery...
by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Dec 18, 2018 | Loggerhead Shrike, Species at Risk
A look inside a shrike biologist’s toolkit By Hazel Wheeler There are many tools that are useful to a shrike biologist during the fi eld season: a good pair of binoculars to spot birds in large tracts of open alvar or pastureland; a spotting scope to get a...
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...
