While the human world is still reeling from the \u201cnew normal\u201d of living through a pandemic, the eastern loggerhead shrikes on the Carden Alvar are having a very unusual year in several different ways.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n WPC has been breeding and releasing endangered loggerhead shrike to historical areas to ensure these songbirds do not disappear. Conservation-bred and conservation-origin adults refers to shrikes which are bred at one of WPC’s partner organisations, released into the wild as juveniles in two locations in Ontario, Napanee and Carden, and have returned to Ontario to breed after migrating to overwinter in the eastern US.<\/span><\/p>\n Wild pairs with at least one conservation-bred adult usually produce up to 40% of the wild fledglings observed each year in Ontario.\u00a0 This year, Napanee\u2019s adult breeding population is composed of approximately 36% conservation-origin shrikes, which is in line with the yearly average. \u00a0Carden, however, has no conservation-origin shrikes and only one banded wild-origin bird.\u00a0 The rest of the shrikes are un-banded, which makes identifying individuals and determining what stage of breeding they are in especially challenging.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n
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