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Birds that Nest in Winter

Posted on February 20, 2019January 2, 2025 by John

It’s minus 15 degrees Celsius in January, and you hear a woodpecker drumming, a behaviour usually reserved for courtship and marking territory. It is still far from spring, and the time for laying eggs. The lengthening of daylight is the main factor

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The 1st Christmas Bird Count in Nova Scotia

Posted on January 12, 2019December 5, 2024 by John

A Christmas tradition in some areas of the United States at the end of the Nineteenth Century was the “Side Hunt.” Hunters would choose sides, and each team would shoot as many birds as they could find in a day and put

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