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LISTEN | What’s making turbulence worse: What On Earth24:22Bumpy flight? Climate change may be to blame When Luke Wheeldon stepped onto Air Canada Flight AC33 in July of 2019, he was exhausted. He was heading home to Australia after his band, Hurricane Fall, played a music festival in P.E.I. “Keen …
Read More »B.C. ostrich farm loses appeal to save birds from cull in case that attracted White House attention
A B.C. ostrich farm has lost its case to save its birds from a cull order issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in January. But the farm’s owners say they will not be giving up, and have called on supporters to gather with them this weekend to “stand …
Read More »Richard Chamberlain, star of Dr. Kildare, Shogun and The Thorn Birds, dead at 90
Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series Dr. Kildare who found a second career as an award-winning “king of the miniseries,” has died. He was 90. Chamberlain died Saturday night in Waimanalo, Hawaii, of complications following a stroke, according to his publicist, Harlan Boll. “Our beloved Richard is …
Read More »Distressed Birds: ਦਿੱਲੀ ਹਾਈ ਕੋਰਟ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਪੁਲੀਸ, ਜੰਗਲਾਤ ਵਿਭਾਗ ਨੂੰ ਢੁੱਕਵੇਂ ਕਦਮ ਚੁੱਕਣ ਦੀ ਹਦਾਇਤ
ਨਵੀਂ ਦਿੱਲੀ, 23 ਫਰਵਰੀ ਦਿੱਲੀ ਹਾਈ ਕੋਰਟ ਨੇ ਕੌਮੀ ਰਾਜਧਾਨੀ ਦੇ ਜੰਗਲੀ ਜੀਵ ਅਤੇ ਪੁਲੀਸ ਅਧਿਕਾਰੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਪੰਛੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਬਚਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਢੁੱਕਵੇਂ ਕਦਮ ਚੁੱਕਣ ਅਤੇ ਇੱਕ ਤਕਨੀਕ ਵਿਕਸਤ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਕਿਹਾ ਹੈ। ਚੀਫ ਜਸਟਿਸ ਡੀਕੇ ਉਪਾਧਿਆਏ ਦੇ ਬੈਂਚ ਨੇ ਸੇਵ ਇੰਡੀਅਨ ਫਾਊਂਡੇਸ਼ਨ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਦਾਇਰ ਕੀਤੀ ਗਈ ਇੱਕ ਜਨਹਿਤ ਪਟੀਸ਼ਨ ਦਾ …
Read More »Grassland birds in crisis on the Canadian Prairies, conservationists warn
A national bird conservation organization says grassland habitat loss on the Prairies has created a “conservation crisis” for dozens of species of birds. The crisis is illustrated in a new State of Canada’s Birds report published Tuesday by Birds Canada in partnership with Environment and Climate Change Canada. The report …
Read More »‘It was killing me’: Calgary naturalist stops bird collisions on his windows with ‘zen curtains’
Brian Keating’s property is a refuge for everything from beavers, ducks and mink, and now his home is bird-friendly too. With all the bird traffic flowing through his Inglewood backyard, Keating’s heart sank every time he heard a collision with his house windows. “I was getting bird strikes often and …
Read More »Toronto birds attack walkers from behind: ‘It’s their territory, we’re just in it’
It’s feathered, and a tiny bit ferocious. Summer is here, which means a notorious angry bird is back to pecking pedestrian’s heads, including in Toronto. “I used to doubt when people told me that the red-winged blackbirds could be that aggressive,” said Shawn Pearen. Then the bird came at Pearen …
Read More »Picnics at Montreal park risk hungry birds colliding with planes: airport
The Montreal Trudeau International Airport is cracking down on picnickers at its plane-spotting park, fearing hungry birds will collide with landing or departing aircraft. Montreal’s main airport is the only one in Canada with its own observation park, Anne-Sophie Hamel, spokesperson for the airport, said Monday. But Jacques-de-Lesseps Park has …
Read More »Bird sanctuary construction works around threatened birds’ burrows
An ongoing city restoration project at a bird sanctuary in Calgary is now working around the nesting schedule of a threatened bird species in Canada, and seeing more of the birds return. The Inglewood Bird Sanctuary Reconnection Project is making improvements to the natural environment of the sanctuary for the fish, birds and plants …
Read More »Climate change turned my nest boxes to help birds into deadly heat traps
This First Person article is by Melissa Hafting who is an avid birder from Richmond, B.C. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. Swallows are an iconic bird of summer across Canada. They swoop and dash gracefully over water showing off magnificent colours akin to …
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