Cover Image: Julius Csotonyi’s depiction of an adult Spinops sternbergorum defending her offspring from an attack by an albertosaurine tyrannosaur during the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era. See the article by Mallon et al. (pp. 294–299) of a newly discovered fossil, most likely Spinops sternbergorum, a ceratopsid species previously known only from Dinosaur Provincial [...]
A Northern Saw-whet Owl in rehab with Safe Wings. If you find an owl in distress, call Safe Wings at 613-216-8999 or the Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre at (613) 854-2849 (photo credit: Safe Wings). First, Do No Harm Ottawa is home to six resident owl species throughout the year. In the late fall [...]
Cosy Reading for Cooler Nights In the introduction to his highly acclaimed book, An Immense World, the science writer Ed Yong creates an imaginary scenario with a room full of animals: an elephant, a mouse, a robin, an owl, a bat, a rattlesnake, a spider, a mosquito, a bumblebee, and a human. The chaos that [...]
Free Online Access to Feature Article in 138(2) is at https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v138i2.3301 Free Online Access to Feature Article in 138(3) is at https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v138i3.3391 Photo: Dr. Tom Reimchen recording data on the coast of British Columbia. While I and others received print copies of volume 138, issue 2 of The Canadian Field-Naturalist (CFN) some time ago—and issue [...]
We Need Your Help to Protect the Endangered Species Act! Please read this Action Alert from Ontario Nature. Sign the petition to the Ontario government here. Pictured to the left: The Spotted Turtle is one of many Endangered species in Ontario that relies on legislated habitat protection for its survival. The primary threat to most [...]
*** Update: Speaker Announcement! *** At our next meeting on Tuesday, May 27 at 7 p.m. (via Zoom) we are excited to welcome Jennifer Doubt, Curator of Botany at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Jennifer will be talking about the National Herbarium of Canada, which she manages. A herbarium (plural: ‘herbaria’) is essentially a library for plants. [...]
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 [...]
OFNC Book Club Reads: Bitch by Lucy Cooke What do albatrosses, whiptail lizards, and meerkats have in common? The females of these species are all used by writer and zoologist Lucy Cooke to demonstrate that, when it comes to the sexes, even the field of evolutionary biology has a few biases that need debunking. In the [...]
