Point Lepreau Bird Observatory (PLBO) turned 30 in 2025. From the founder of the project himself, learn all about how this Saint John Naturalists Club initiative came to be and why it’s so important for scientific research in this province.
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The Christmas Bird Count is North America’s longest-running citizen science project. It started on Christmas Day 1900 and at 9 am on that day, a New Brunswicker, William H. Moore, became Canada’s first Christmas bird counter.
For the next 50 years, “CBCs” in New Brunswick were patchy and infrequent, only a dozen in all. But since 1956, there have been CBCs, sometimes more than 50 in a year, all over the province.
About 1000 people participated in 48 Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) all over New Brunswick in December 2023 and early 2024.
We spent 1750 hours (equivalent to more than two-hundred 8-hour days) covering 1100 km on foot and 13,000 km by car in search of wintertime birds. Count Day temperatures averaged -2ºC at the start and +1 ºC at the end so most count areas had at least some open water.
By the end of it, we had found 126,000 birds from 139 species plus another two species during each of Count Week and Count Period for a total of 141 species. This is the lowest number of individuals since 2015, but only one less than last year’s recent high of 140 species.
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Les Ami.e.s de la nature du Sud-Est recently published a speech by president Raymonde Chartier, in a special souvenir edition of the Plume verte (a magazine for club members). It was delivered at the 35th anniversary celebration on October 5, 2024 in Grande-Digue.
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Many New Brunswickers know that on Christmas Day 1900, William H. Moore, a naturalist, farmer, big game outfitter and educator from Scotch Lake, York County, New Brunswick became Canada‘s first Christmas Bird Counter. More than 2,000 Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) have been done in New Brunswick since the year 1900 but William Moore never did another count, and fewer than a dozen were done over the next 50 years.
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About 1000 people participated in 48 Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) all over New Brunswick in December 2023 and early 2024.
We spent 1750 hours (equivalent to more than two-hundred 8-hour days) covering 1100 km on foot and 13,000 km by car in search of wintertime birds. Count Day temperatures averaged -2ºC at the start and +1 ºC at the end so most count areas had at least some open water.
By the end of it, we had found 126,000 birds from 139 species plus another two species during each of Count Week and Count Period for a total of 141 species. This is the lowest number of individuals since 2015, but only one less than last year’s recent high of 140 species.
NB Naturalist Feature: The 2023 Christmas Bird Count in New Brunswick Read More »
The 2022 Christmas Bird Count in New Brunswick Forty-nine Count Circles. 1,000 observers. 1,550 hours of observations. More than 15,000 km covered including almost 850 on foot. Result: 136,194 birds
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NB Naturalist Feature: Improving our Understanding of Freshwater Mussels in New Brunswick By Kerstyn Dobbs and Sarah Cusack Freshwater mussels are bivalves that inhabit the benthic zone of freshwater ecosystems,
Preorder Your Commemorative Copy of the NB Naturalist 50th Anniversary Edition Today! In 2022, Nature NB celebrated its 50th anniversary! In the upcoming edition of our magazine, the NB Naturalist, we put
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NB Naturalist Feature: Newly Recorded Tapeworms Infecting Fishes of New Brunswick and the Need for Citizen Science! By Megan Fraser Parasites are organisms that live on or inside of a
