Editor’s Synopsis of CFN 138(1) Plus: FREE Online Access to Feature Article at https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v138i1.3195 The latest issue of The Canadian Field-Naturalist (CFN) should arrive soon in the physical mailboxes of those with print subscriptions. The Canadian Field-Naturalist is the official journal and publication of record for the Ottawa Field Naturalists’ Club (OFNC). The current issue [...]
Bird Safe Campus Summit February 26, 2025 - #BSCS25 You’ve likely heard some variation of the proverb “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.” This speaks to our obligation to look after the environment — the land, the water, the skies, and all of their inhabitants. A [...]
OFNC Book Club Reads: The End of Eden by Adam Welz Instead of ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming,’ South African naturalist and writer Adam Welz prefers the term ‘global weirding’. The ecological disaster of our times is both unprecedented and strange, a maddening demonstration of ‘the butterfly effect’ where snow melt in the Arctic changes [...]
The 106th Ottawa-Gatineau CBC was held December 15, 2024. Temperatures ranged from -14.9 to -6.4 degrees Celsius, skies were most cloudy, with only a few centimetres of snow on the ground; waterways were partly frozen. 171 field observers plus 25 feeder watchers found 77 species and a 42,855 individual birds. The most abundant bird was, [...]
