Rescuers flock to save 100-plus finches found in foreclosed house
It was Friday when Jill Woods got a phone call: Please come and pick up 100-plus abandoned finches and some canaries for good measure.
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Local News Going to Vancouver? Have space for a bird?
A songbird from Western Canada that was rescued from freezing after it somehow strayed to Pakenham needs human assistance to fly home. -
Local News Head west to see a REAL tent caterpillar infestation, Ottawa naturalist says
As tent in and around the national capital in 2017, Ottawa naturalist Dan Brunton describes an infestation across the Prairies of “biblical” proportions. -
Local News Nature Conservancy protects 60 square km animal corridor near Montebello
The Nature Conservancy of Canada has formally protected 60 square kilometres of land — nearly 15,000 acres — northeast of Montebello to give wildlife room to move. -
Local News Science of spring: Black flies drive loons wild, too
Black flies that can create a private hell for campers are even more vicious to another species: the common loon. -
Local News Science of spring: Meet the loneliest bird in Eastern Ontario
The loneliest bird in Eastern Ontario is still looking for a mate, weeks after advertising that it is single and available. -
Local News Science of spring: Songbirds now report their location as they fly
Automation has come to the world of biologists who study bird migration, taking away some of the hard labour involved in studying tiny creatures that live in treetops. -
Local News The birds are back in town! Rideau River ospreys settle in on rebuilt platform
A pair of ospreys are making their home on a new nesting platform landowner Dave Craig erected on his Rideau River property after accidentally toppling the old pole last summer. -
Local News The purists vs. the baiters: Fowl play in Ottawa's birding country
Shouting matches and crude language have invaded a world of bucolic harmony: birding. The bird world has rival human factions: purists who admire birds from a distance, and some photographers who put out bait — live mice from a pet store — to get the dramatic shot of a bird of prey swooping in. -
Local News Mother heron is golden for Ottawa photographer
Ramin Izadpanah loves to talk about the "golden hours," the golden light after sunrise and before sunset when he shoots his best nature photos. -
Local News Science of winter: Loon couples call it quits for winter
The loon couples that seemed devoted and inseparable all summer have just done a Brad and Angelina.