• Supporting Cain’s Quest!

  March 28, 2011 - 11 h 10

  With less than 24 hours notice, it was a last minute decision to join the volunteer support group for checkpoint #5 of Cain’s Quest marathon endurance snowmobile race through the wilds of Labrador! I joined the Twin Rivers Checkpoint crew from...

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• Trans Labrador Highway to Labrador West

  March 14, 2011 - 9 h 24

  Back on Feb. 25, we took a family trip from Happy Valley-Goose Bay to Labrador City.

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• Purple Sandpipers

  February 28, 2011 - 10 h 59

  For the Purple Sandpiper, pushing nature’s limits is a way of life.

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• Winter Divers

  January 31, 2011 - 15 h 18

  This January we started a new year with unseasonably warm temperatures and a lack of snow and ice. In fact up until mid January, the Churchill River remained largely free of ice permitting a couple of species of waterfowl to remain in Labrador...

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• Christmas Bird Count Results

  January 17, 2011 - 10 h 28

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• Waxwings; Bohemian or Cedar?

  December 20, 2010 - 10 h 43

  Back in November, I had a very interesting conversation with Mrs. Susan Felsberg, a long time resident of Mud Lake who describes herself as being a novice bird watcher. Through several conversations I established that, among other expert...

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• The 111th Annual Christmas Bird Count

  December 6, 2010 - 10 h 43

  The annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) – the longest-running Citizen Science survey in the world – will take place from Dec.14, 2010 to Jan. 5, 2011. Tens of thousands of volunteers throughout North America will brave winter weather to add a...

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• Hunting Season Changes 2010-11

  November 11, 2010 - 13 h 51

  In my last column, I discussed the situation with the decline of the George River Caribou herd and some of the potential management decisions that surround the future management of the herd. With this year’s hunting season already upon us there...

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• Changes to the Caribou Hunting Season (2010-11)

  October 25, 2010 - 15 h 36

  In 2008, Tom Bergerud, the guru of Caribou population dynamics in North America published “The Return of Caribou to Ungava” documenting population increase of the George River Caribou Herd from some 15,000 animals in the 1950’s to the...

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• A Banded Red Knot!

  October 11, 2010 - 1 h 00

  Observing a rare bird or one that has strayed off its regular migration route is not that unusual for bird watchers in Labrador. What is much less common is observing a rare bird that has been marked by a researcher in order to gain more...

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Other news

• August 2, 2010 The Giant Hogweed here?