Category: National Office

If you spend much time in forested regions of Canada and parts of the US, you’ve probably heard a curious drumming sound as the winter months draw to a close. The drumming starts out...

Small, unassuming, but not to be underestimated, the Piping Plover inhabits shores and sandbars of water bodies in the Prairies and the Atlantic coast of North America. These little shorebirds nest in the sand,...

The days immediately following birth can vary tremendously among different species. Neonates, or newborns, are born somewhere in the range of completely helpless and requiring complete care, to quite mature and able to care...

There is nothing quite like the sight of the courtship ritual of the Clark’s and the Western Grebes. The ritual involves a variety of feeding, preening, and display behaviours and ends with a mating...

Hmm, birds…milking…where’s the connection? Wait! Did you know that some birds feed milk to their young? Crop milk is a nutritious substance composed of cells sloughed from the lining of the crop. Adult birds...