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...
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...
