Two seed-loving birds that breed up north in the boreal taiga and arctic tundra, the Snow Bunting and Common Redpoll, paid visit to our colleague Valerie Courtois of the Canadian Boreal Initiative recently. She lives way up in Goose Bay, Labrador, so they likely spent their winter down in southern Canada or the northern US [...]

Jeff was recently out on vacation, so I thought I would post about an interesting article I came across last week about some of the lesser-known values trees and forests provide. Hope you enjoy…
-David

Trees in Canada’s boreal forest
Credit: Garth Lenz
Trees, trees, and more trees. It’s hard to picture yourself embedded within a landscape of [...]

In our last post we highlighted the Northern Waterthrush – a small bird frequently found in mangroves throughout the Caribbean that heavily relies on the boreal forest up north for summer breeding.

Hope, in her wintering grounds in St. Croix
Credit: Lisa Yntema
Another bird that shares such mangrove habitat and also heavily relies on the boreal [...]

Northern Waterthrush
Credit: Brian E. Small
The Great Bird Current is flowing north and picking up volume as more and more boreal birds leave their wintering grounds on their way to the boreal forest of Canada and Alaska. They come from South America, Central America, the Caribbean, the southern U.S. and Mexico, with the largest number [...]