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Happy #WingedWildlifeWednesday 🐤🐥 Today we b

Happy #WingedWildlifeWednesday 🐤🐥 Today we bring you Winged Wildlife in two ways. The first is that going forward Nature NL will be doing an online bird ID quiz every Wednesday at 7:30 pm! All you have to do to join is follow the link https://meet.jit.si/WingedWildlifeWednesdayNatureNL and enjoy the ease of online birding.

All experience levels are welcome! Our focus is on birds of NL so this is a great opportunity for anyone looking to learn more about the birds of our province or just partake in some group birding - online!

Secondly, we have these beautiful warblers captured by Gene Herzberg @slowoldman123 and shared with us at our March AGM and photo night. Some of which are rare to Newfoundland so we won’t make you ID! 😉

The first warbler pictured is the very rare Hermit Warbler which was at the former School for the Deaf on Topsail road. The second warbler pictured, very uncommon, is the Northern Parula that was at Kelly’s Brook, and finally, a more common warbler, the Wilson’s Warbler. The three warblers stayed too long in St. John’s and sadly, despite efforts by many local birders to protect and feed these birds, none of them survived beyond the Snowmageddon blizzard.

The second photo shared by Gene Herzberg (@slowold

The second photo shared by Gene Herzberg (@slowoldman123) at our Annual General Meeting and Photo Night is this glorious Spring image. Gene had this to share of the photo:

The fox kit is one of three that were born at the visitors centre at Cape St. Mary’s last spring. Unfortunately one of them died from French heart worm (not this one) but two survived and entertained visitors for quite a while.

We’re bringing the #Wildlife again today! First

We’re bringing the #Wildlife again today!
First of all, we want to remind everyone that our Wild Things Scholarship is still taking applications from nature-minded high school students! The deadline to apply is April 30th and the value of this scholarship is $1000. Full details of the scholarship are on our website naturenl.ca🐋 We would like to encourage everyone to spread the word!
Also bringing the Winged Wildlife today is this photo shared by Gene Herzberg (@slowoldman123) at our online AGM and photo night in March. This pink-footed goose arrived in St. John’s last fall and was first seen by many at Signal Hill, it then was seen at various places around town, when the ice came to the ponds it began spending time between the open water at Quidi Vidi lake and the marshy area near the bird blind at Long Pond. It has been seen the past few days at Burton’s Pond on the MUN Campus and at Quidi Vidi Lake.

Tomorrow is #WingedWildlifeWednesday and we’re c

Tomorrow is #WingedWildlifeWednesday and we’re celebrating online 🦅🦉 While everything is virological, we’ll keep it ornithological! Forget COVID, we’re talking CORVIDS! Pandemics are hard but don’t alarm🚨 We’ve got birds and fun times and many terrible rhymes!

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday April 1st from 7:30-8:30 for a bird ID quiz with birders and naturalists, Lancy Cheng and @labrador_birdbrain. All you have to do is follow the link: https://meet.jit.si/WingedWildlifeWednesdayNatureNL and that’s it!

You don't need to have any bird experience to play, and there are always a variety of levels of birds (some very easy, some nearly impossible to ID). The photos are not perfect, but that's a very realistic way to learn identification because the real world usually doesn't allow for perfect views of birds either.
If you would like more details on the logistics of this event, please check out our Facebook event!

This photo is the final photo Lancy Cheng shared with us at our past Nature NL AGM and photo night. The Gull pictured is a Glaucous Gull in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Can any hawk eyes tell us what looks different about this winged wildlife?

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