Winter Bird Count on Sunday, January 10th in Rouge Park
We are pleased to announce that, we are participating in Rouge Park’s seventh annual Winter Bird Count on Sunday, January 10th.
Any volunteer is welcome, no matter what your birding skills are. It is a fun and educational event. If you are new to birding, this is an excellent experience to learn from skilled birders or simply to learn more about Rouge Park and the wildlife within it.
Here is more info:
Time: 7:30am
Meeting location: Parking lot across Leslie subway station on Sheppard St. (North West corner of Leslie and Sheppard).
We carpool to the park and visa versa.
We will go to the Rouge Park in Scarborough (close to the Toronto Zoo) and the count starts at 8:00am.
We can stay there as long as we wish.
At the end of the day (3:00pm), count teams are invited to meet at the West Rouge Community Centre to compile data and share a hot meal provided by Rouge Park.
If you join us, please bundle up, wear multiple layers, waterproof clothing and cover as much skin as possible. We also recommend that you bring hot beverage, snacks for the day, binoculars, field guides and cameras if you have them. These items are not mandatory, but they may help you during the day.
The monitoring of bird populations within the park will
reveal trends that overtime should serve as valuable indicators of ecosystem health for use in future management strategies. Every volunteer provides a vital role in helping to obtain this important information. Last year, volunteers recorded 67 species and over five thousand individual birds.
They will be dividing Rouge Park into several different sectors and have a team of volunteers assigned to each sector of the park. Each team will be lead by an experienced birder and they will count and record as many birds as they can see on that day. Following the Bird Count, all volunteers will be welcome to attend a count tally session where they will provide some snacks and warm beverages.
If you would like to participate, please RSVP by Thursday Jan 7
event@torontoiranians.com and let us know if you are joining us.
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