Bird Friendly City Kitchener

It’s now been confirmed that the Snowy Owls died of avian flu. A ban on rodenticides is still needed!

19.01.2025 14:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you to the Toronto Star and reporter Reagan McSwain for covering this story. Thank you to Steven Shpak, photographer and educator, for championing a ban on rodenticide in Toronto. You can support his petition here: www.change.org/p/ban-rodent...

14.01.2025 23:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

‘We have to act now’: Deaths of two snowy owls at Tommy Thompson Park re-ignite calls for rodenticide ban The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority said it is “aware” of the recent deaths of the two owls, but the cause of death has not yet been determined.

Two snowy owls were found dead in Toronto, with rodenticide the suspected cause

Winter migration brings these beautiful arctic birds south to our region

Education & change on the harmful impacts of rodenticide is a priority for all bird-friendly cities!

🪶 #birds

www.thestar.com/news/gta/we-...

14.01.2025 23:44 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A great segment from PBS yesterday about window collisions and urban bird life!

The segment starts at the 16m13s mark in the video, and talks about the dangers windows pose to birds, and effective methods to protect their lives

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#birds #conservation 🪶

06.01.2025 16:36 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

#addBirder please!

24.12.2024 03:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Winter birding is picking up so get out there and enjoy our juncos as well as the snow buntings, lapland longspurs, horned larks, and snowy owls who also spend their winters with us in Waterloo Region.

Wishing everyone a wonderful restful time and we will be back in the new year!

24.12.2024 03:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We’re looking forward to official City of Kitchener endorsement of our city bird in the new year but for now our bird team is going to rest and enjoy the holidays.

24.12.2024 03:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Photo of a Dark-Eyed Junco, a bird with a pale belly, a pink beak, and slate-grey body, head, and wings. Around it is a frame which says: "And the Winner is...THE DARK-EYED JUNCO!" The Bird Friendly City logo for Kitchener is in the corner.

Kitchener has voted and our official city bird election 🪶 has decided a winner! We're in our cute, underrated sparrow era.

Some cool stats about the vote:

- 1265 votes cast

- 10.3% Killdeer
- 17.5% Chimney Swift
- 27.1% Merlin
- Our winning Dark-Eyed Junco took it with 45.1% of the vote

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