The ballots are counted and the winner is the Tufted Titmouse. This feisty grey-and-white member of the chickadee family has expanded its range into southern Ontario thanks to the many bird feeders urban watchers have put out, and so is a fitting avian ambassador for the Windsor area. The announcement was made in Ojibway Park …
The Graeme Gibson Prismaticos Project, an outreach initiative of PIBO, this month distributed nine pairs of binoculars donated in Canada to environmental workers in Mexico’s state of Guanajuanto. Four recipients are volunteers in the Sierra de los Agustinos biosphere near the city of Acámbaro. Under the aegis of the city’s Environmental and Ecological Department, the …
On October 2, noted philanthropist Salah Bachir and artist Jacob Yerex hosted a PIBO fundraising event at their home in Paris, Ontario. The four-hour garden party and art tour
Researchers at King’s College London have found that daily encounters with birds improves the mood of people with depression….
On July 30, PIBO, in conjunction with Women’s Enterprise Skills Training of Windsor Inc. (WEST), launched Changemakers Birding Club, a birding club for young women.
PIBO is launching a new initiative to address the problem of light pollution and window collisions in the city of Windsor. Called Lights Out Windsor!, the project will distribute 200 FeatherFriendly window-tape kits to small businesses that pledge to reduce light pollution by turning off their store lights at night. Reducing light pollution is one of …
For 24 hours beginning at noon on Friday, May 6, teams of birders will compete for the coveted Botham Cup on Pelee Island.
In March, PIBO launched the Graeme Gibson Prismáticos Project, an outreach program in which we collect previously-loved binoculars and distribute them
A study published in Science in February found that North American eagles are being seriously impacted by lead poisoning. Up to 50 percent of the birds sampled had high levels of lead in their organs, enough to slow population growth by 3.8 percent in Bald eagles and 0.8 percent in Golden eagles. The Bald eagle …
A study published in January found that male Song sparrows sing a repertoire of up to 12 two-second songs in sets lasting about 30 minutes – repeating a single song many times in a row within each set. During the next set, the males repeat the same 12 songs, but this time, vary the length …
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