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Bindi the burrowing owl is an ambassador for the Manitoba Burrowing Owl Recovery Program.
Farmit Manitoba

Bringing back the burrowing owl

The program dedicated to restoring burrowing owls to Manitoba isn’t giving up

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This is as big as they get.” Standing in one of several arenas repurposed for Brandon’s Royal Manitoba Winter Fair this March, Jessica Riach was obviously getting used to repeating some version of this statement. On her arm perched Bindi, a four-year-old fully grown burrowing owl, standing shorter than a hardcover book. The pair were
A sharp-tailed grouse dances on a cultivated field.
Farmit Manitoba

Discovering our avian Prairie dancers

Sharp-tailed grouse spring displays are a natural spectacle that mostly goes unnoticed

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There’s a timeless performance waiting for dance enthusiasts at this time of year. The performers are as strikingly adorned as they would be in a major ballet company, if a bit more camera shy. The stage is the natural landscape of the Prairies, and the audience is anyone ambitious enough to get up at 3
A great gray owl comes to a lure as Jim Duncan readies the capture net.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

The man who fishes for owls

Decades of dedication to owl research and education has become a cornerstone of one family’s life

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James (Jim) Duncan’s email address – owlodessy – pretty much sums up his life. Few folks have been tied to a bird the way great gray owls have defined him and his family. Now in his retirement years–though hardly retired–he still lives his self-described “owl lifestyle.” His academic expertise is recognized globally and he has
Birds settle in the birdhouse on Linda Maendel’s property this spring.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Summer of the swallows

The ups and downs of bird watching, from nest to fledgling

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In our front yard, there is an old barn. It’s a little smaller than its full-scale cousins that still smatter Manitoba’s landscape. This one is in a tree. Small changes to a long-abandoned birdhouse was all it took to attract new feathered residents. A remnant of a school project from bygone years, the barn’s red
A white breasted nuthatch — otherwise known as the ‘upside down bird’.
Farmit Manitoba

Help keep count at your bird feeder

If you like birds, you can use your hobby to become a citizen scientist

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Project FeederWatch is an interesting and useful winter activity for bird enthusiasts. If bird-watching and/or feeding is one of your hobbies, consider helping a scientific project at the same time. The citizen-science research project is operated by Bird Studies Canada and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It runs from Nov. 1 through April 30 and
Screengrab of turkeys on display at Canadian Western Agribition in Regina, from a 2017 promotional video. (CWA video screengrab via YouTube)
Livestock

Saskatchewan, Ontario ban birds at events

Bans back on as fall migratory season underway, avian flu cases stack up

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At least two provinces now have bans in place on birds being brought to fall ag fairs and other such events, as cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza pick up again in Canada’s domestic birds. Ontario — which had such a ban in place this spring — reinstated it effective Sept. 23 through to Oct.
Intern Latasha Spence holds Griffin, a great horned owl ambassador.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Take the opportunity to talk with the animals

Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre to hold two-day open house

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Would you like to meet a great horned owl named Griffin? Or try conversing with Jet, a crow who laughs and says “hi”? Or maybe watch an eastern box turtle? Would you like to learn more about these creatures and about work to help injured or orphaned birds and animals? If so, consider booking a
A few of Manitoba’s southern lakes hold some of the most important white pelican breeding areas on the continent.
News, Other

Angling for a view

Pelican watching, with a little fishing on the side, breaks up the mid-summer pause in bird watching options

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Mid-summer is a bit like purgatory for keen birdwatchers. The spring migration and birds in breeding plumage are in the rear-view mirror. Our flashy songbirds are raising young and have cut back their singing. They will soon molt and become a drab version of their spring selves. “Fall” warblers, meanwhile, are the ultimate test of
File photo of a small flock of tundra swans taking off from a grain field in early spring. (WWing/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock

Spring planting work can kick up avian flu, feather sector warns

Three more poultry outbreaks confirmed in Canada so far this week

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Spring planting work could soon start to bring unintended gifts left by wild birds from fields into farmyards, Ontario’s poultry and egg sectors warn, as more cases of avian flu are confirmed at poultry farms across the country. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Thursday reported three additional outbreaks of H5 avian influenza in commercial
File photo of a flock of snow geese on Buffalo Pound Lake in south-central Saskatchewan. (Bobloblaw/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock

Ontario bans birds at events as avian flu spreads

Infected snow goose found in western Saskatchewan; two backyard flocks in Montana also confirmed infected

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Up against several outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian flu in commercial poultry flocks, Ontario is temporarily banning birds from appearing at shows and other such events. Provincial Agriculture Minister Lisa Thompson on Friday announced a ministerial order taking effect just after midnight Saturday (April 9), in which “the movement to and participation of birds in

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