Birds by the Bay
Venue: MacGregor Point Provincial Park Visitor Centre
City or town: Port Elgin
Street address: 1593 Bruce Road 33
Postal code: N0H 2C5
Start Date: Saturday, October 3 @ 15:00
End Date: Saturday, October 3 @ 17:30
Host name: BPBO
Host email: bpbostewardship@gmail.com
Host Web site: https://bpbo.ca
About This Event
Saturday, October 3 at 3 pm – MacGregor Point Provincial Park Visitor Centre, Port Elgin
The Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory (BPBO) has a long history at Cabot Head. It began in August 1996, when Ted Cheskey conducted some initial bird banding at the Cabot Head Lighthouse. In 2000, due to the high number of tourists and disturbance at the lighthouse location, the banding location moved to the current site on Wingfield Basin. From these beginnings, grew BPBO.
To celebrate our 25th anniversary, BPBO presents “Birds by the Bay”, a talk by Station Scientist, Stéphane Menu, PhD. Learn about bird migration, monitoring and the work done by BPBO. The presentation will be given in three locations: