New graduate position at McGill University on bird movements and use of urban greenspaces
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A bird-window collision monitoring survey was conducted at Carleton University to investigate the occurrences of collisions on campus.
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Over 40 participants gathered for two days at the Loyola campus of Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, in mid-November for a cross-sectoral engagement workshop centered around urban forests and nature-based solutions research and projects across Canada.
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Chloe Cull (MSc candidate at Concordia University) had a fantastic field summer searching for and monitoring nests of open-cup nesters in a few of Montreal’s urban forests.
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After two busy years and > 6 months of field work, Vanessa successfully completed her M.Sc. thesis at McGill University (co-supervised by Dr. Kyle Elliott) on the stopover ecology and habitat use of two moult migrants in peri-urban greenspaces in the summer of 2023
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Since 2022, Barbara Frei and Ana Morales have been working with biologists and knowledge-holders from the Bureau environnement et terre d’Odanak (BETO; Mziaow8gan ta Aki), and the Kahnawà:ke Environment Protection Office (KEPO) on banding, tagging, and learning more about the federally threatened Bank Swallow.
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New projects in collaboration with Dr. Kyle Elliott at McGill University (co-supervised by Dr. Barbara Frei) will begin in fall of 2023. This will include urban (winter!) field work, community engagement and working with multiple stakeholders. All birds are handled by trained personnel and with federal wildlife permits following strict animal care protocols.
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New projects in collaboration with Safe Wings Ottawa and Dr. Rachel Buxton at Carleton University will begin in fall of 2023. Thanks to funding by ECCC and the Kenneth M. Molson Foundation, graduate student in the Buxton lab of Carleton University (co-supervised by Dr. Barbara Frei) will think of new and innovative ways to quantify conservation outcomes of mitigation measures for bird collisions in the city of Ottawa.
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The goal of this systematic map is to gather and describe information on two desired outcomes of urban forest management - climate mitigation & biodiversity conservation
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Chloe Cull has joined the team to work on Montreal-based research on urban forests, ecosystem services, and bird diversity, and field work has commenced with tagging and tracking migratory songbirds in the Grand Parc de l'Ouest of Montreal in fall 2022.
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We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow interested in urban forestry, nature-based solutions, and biodiversity science.
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