With the holiday season well underway we thought you might enjoy these terrific waxwing photos our colleague, Valerie Courtois of the Canadian Boreal Initiative, took from her yard way up north in Goose Bay, Labrador. These were taken in November, meaning they could be a bit further south at this point. Enjoy, and hope you [...]

Screenshot from Google Earth’s new boreal forest tour
Credit: Google Earth Outreach
Today Google Earth Outreach launched a new program in Canada.  One of Google Earth’s top priorities was to focus on Canada’s boreal forest.  You can now take a three-minute tour of Canada’s boreal forest, allowing an easy-to-use vehicle for millions of people around the [...]

We are pleased today to feature a guest blog from Maggie MacPherson. Maggie came to us via Dina Roberts, one of our staff scientists who met her some years ago while doing bird research in Costa Rica. Maggie works with acclaimed ornithologist and author Bridget Stutchbury. Be sure to check out some of her great [...]

Boreal Forest in Labrador Credit: Larry Innes I'm posting a wonderful letter to the editor in The Labradorian about the need to protect boreal forests in Labrador – this one by our Canadian colleague Larry Innes of the Canadian Boreal Initiative. There are a whole host of migratory birds that breed in Labrador's Boreal Forest in the summer, [...]

Boreal forest in Labrador
Credit: Larry Innes, CBI 
One of my colleagues (and member of the International Boreal Conservation Science Panel) just wrote an excellent and timely op-ed in The Telegram arguing that Canada’s real job on climate issues comes after the Copenhagen conference. Dr. Jacobs points out that Newfoundland and Labrador have extensive regions of boreal forest [...]

 
This year, 2010, has been officially declared to be the International Year for Biodiversity by the United Nations. After thousands of years of agriculture and development (including the resource boom following the industrial revolution), humans have pushed increasing numbers of species to the brink of extinction, and unfortunately, many past the brink. It is estimated [...]

Group of birdwatchers looking for birds
Credit: Garth Lenz
I just wanted to remind you birders out there that Audubon’s annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is currently underway and ends January 5, 2010. One of the best examples of what has come to be known as “citizen science”, the annual CBC is a great way for birders [...]

This past September I had the opportunity and pleasure to spend time with some of my Boreal colleagues (and I mean humans not birds) in Victoria, British Columbia.

To get there we took the Victoria Clipper, a high-speed ferry, from Seattle. Although it was tough to look for birds because of the speed of the boat and the [...]

We spent Thanksgiving in Florida visiting family and, as I am every time I visit there in fall or winter, I was astonished by the abundance of a Boreal dependent bird, the Palm Warbler. Not only could you find clouds of Palm Warblers in just about every piece of natural habitat at least in north-central Florida, [...]

We are delighted to post this guest blog by our Canadian colleague Suzy Fraser of the Canadian Boreal Initiative about their annual Boreal Awards ceremony in Ottawa. There were some great nominees and winners, as well as a great overall mood about the Boreal! – Jeff

‘Bou’ the Woodland Caribou drops by the CBI Awards
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