Considering the Birds at Brooksdale
How do you band a bird that weighs just a few grams? Very carefully! A Rocha’s Brooksdale Centre conservation team and volunteers were educated in the fine art of hummingbird [...]
Chirps and Quirks – Lessons from Swallows
Conservation Science Intern, Caitlin Russel reflects on her swallow monitoring project. "If I was a bird, I would be a swallow," was the enthusiastic reply of an A Rocha staff member [...]
Small Talk and Storm Chasing
"Weather is often something to talk about when we have nothing to say, but today weather is the main subject so we will skip the small talk entirely." And with that A Rocha [...]
Searching for Swallows
By Michelle Jackson (PhD) This summer, A Rocha Canada has teamed up with private landowners in the Little Campbell River Watershed to continue and expand a Barn Swallow monitoring program [...]
Getting in on the Action
Shannon's Volunteer Story by Shannon Simpson My family and I passed by A Rocha’s Brooksdale Centre on our way home from Campbell Valley Park for years. I would always look [...]