Canada’s National Bird Search
They don’t have one. Who’d a thunk it, eh? I’ve lived a stone’s throw away from the border for most of my life and never knew. But that’s going to change soon. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Canadian Geographic is conducting a poll for the National Bird Project. They hope Canada will have an official bird by 2017, the country's sesquicentennial.
Visitors to the web site can vote for one of 40 birds and evidently they want people to cast informed votes because each bird has an illustration, detailed information about what they look like - including height, length and wingspan - and maps depicting where they breed, where they stay when not breeding and their migration patterns. It’s just a treasure trove of info about nature and lots of fun to browse.
At the moment the Common Loon, the Snowy Owl and the Gray Jay/Wiskey Jack top the leaderboard.
Do any of these birds visit your yard?
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We see
Ruby throated hummingbirds each summer.
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Common Loons don't visit our
Common Loons don't visit our backyard, but a number of them can be found in the State Capitol in Lansing.
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"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." --Paul Wellstone
We've got one...
that just made a nest in the governor's mansion here in Illinois.
Two years to pick a bird?
We used to see loons on the lake. Haven't seen them in many years now.
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Sounds like a long time
but it would probably take just as long here, if not longer. Take the poll. Parliment has to debate and vote. Harper has to obstruct.
"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." --Paul Wellstone