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Canadian Bat Box Project
Canadian Bat Box Project By: Karen Vanderwolf If you have a bat box I want to know about it! Bats in Canada face multiple threats from habitat loss and disease. As towns and cities expand, the large old trees that bats call home are being cleared, and bats are losing their roosts. Bats need a … Read more
Fall Roundup – We need your pictures!
The Fall Round-up took place between Friday Nov 6 and Sunday Nov 8. The summary of the birds found is now on the Birding in the Kingston Area page. There are 32 birds mentioned in the article. We have pictures for 8 of the actual birds seen that day (Snowy Owl, Barred Owl, Short-eared Owl, … Read more
Fall Roundup 2020
By Erwin Batalla The format for the 55th KFN Fall Round-up was the same as last year, with the focus on obtaining a better picture of the birds in the whole study area in early November. Birds were recorded between noon Friday November 6 and noon Sunday November 8. Following the trend in the past … Read more
Message from the President – Virtual Meetings
As we head into the autumn it appears that COVID 19 will continue to restrict the face to faceactivities of the KFN. With appropriate infection control measures in place, we hope to be able tocontinue field trips and rambles. The Blue Bill, Newsletters, Facebook, Flickr and the normalactivities of the Executive continue unchanged. For many … Read more
Blue-Green Algae – Foldscope Project Dates
Proposed sample photo dates, are Aug. 16th, Aug. 30th, Sept. 13th. Submit your water sample photos to shirleyfrenchka@gmail.com.
Online Research Study Opportunity for Ontario Naturalists
Although most people share some facts about the natural world in common, as individuals, our specific knowledge is constantly changing as we have new experiences and learn new things. Recent work in neuroscience has explored how natural concepts are organized in the brain by comparing the neural representations that correspond to different types of biological … Read more
Blue-green Algae Workshop May 2020
KFN, CRCA and Queen’s University hosted an online cyanobacteria workshop on May 29, 2020. The resources from that workshop are posted below. Workshop Part 1 –research and observations Video Identifying BGAs Video Algae IdentificationField Guide Foldscope Tutorial Foldscope project: proposed sample photo dates, are Aug. 16th, Aug. 30th, Sept. 13th. Submit your water sample photos … Read more
BioBlitz cancelled, but you are encouraged to submit sightings!
The Kingston 2020 BioBlitz that was to be held June 12-13 has been cancelled. However, you can participate in collecting wildlife sightings in the same time period. Please see the event listing for details.
Blue-Green Algae Workshop Online May 29
The online version of the workshop that was originally planned for March will be available here on May 29. Link to BGA Workshop Part 1- Research and Observations Video Link to Identifying BGAs Video Holly Evans of CRCA shared the follwing link (http://www.ces.fau.edu/usgs/understanding-algae/index.php) on the topic of water quality issues in Florida. It is a … Read more