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”;...
by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Nov 20, 2017 | 2017 Bumble Bee Season, Loggerhead Shrike, Pollinators, Yellow Banded Bumblebee |
by Hayley Tompkins, 2017 Field Biologist, Bumble Bee Recovery If you’ve read my earlier blog posts in this series, you’ll remember that I told you all I finally became a mom – a “bee mom” that is. I wish I could take all the credit for...
by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Nov 6, 2017 | Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike |
This year has been incredibly successful for the eastern loggerhead shrike recovery program with a record breaking 128 conservation-bred juvenile shrikes released in Ontario. These releases occurred in the two core breeding areas, Napanee and Carden, where biologists...
by Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery | Oct 26, 2017 | Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike, Species at Risk |
At the end of each summer, once the Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery field season has wrapped and Ontario’s loggerhead shrike (along with the field staff who have been studying them) start moving towards their winter homes, I take to the internet to watch for...
