blog.abmi.ca
Wiretapping the Woods | ABMI Blog
http://blog.abmi.ca/2014/08/07/wiretapping-the-woods
It's Our Nature to Know. The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Blog. August 7, 2014. Comments Off on Wiretapping the Woods. Posted by: Lindsay Monk. Imagine standing in the middle of a forest. How far into the forest do you think you could hear? Perk up your ears. Could you count the number of birds calling in that forest? In other words, could you identify every bird that is within earshot? University of Alberta graduate student Daniel Yip programs an ARU (Photo: Cassandra Hardie). Or the number...
blog.abmi.ca
Owls in a Changing Soundscape | ABMI Blog
http://blog.abmi.ca/2014/06/01/owls-in-a-changing-soundscape
It's Our Nature to Know. The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Blog. Owls in a Changing Soundscape. June 1, 2014. Comments Off on Owls in a Changing Soundscape. A University of Alberta technician completing owl surveys on a wintery day. Photo(c) Alex MacPhail. Rare Animal Monitoring Program. Owls use vocal communication to attract mates and defend territories, but also use acoustic cues when hunting for prey at night. Fieldwork for the owl component of the program runs from March until May, durin...
blog.abmi.ca
What It Takes to Monitor Alberta’s Biodiversity | ABMI Blog
http://blog.abmi.ca/2014/04/04/what-it-takes-to-monitor-albertas-biodiversity-2
It's Our Nature to Know. The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Blog. What It Takes to Monitor Alberta’s Biodiversity. April 4, 2014. Comments Off on What It Takes to Monitor Alberta’s Biodiversity. I try to remind everybody to take a step back and look at the magnitude of what we’re doing. I think people on the ABMI staff take a lot of pride in that. Colin Twitchell, Director, ABMI’s Monitoring Centre. Preparing audio recorders for monitoring birds. (c) Tara Narwani. Twitchell’s team arranges tra...
species.abmi.ca
Species Index: Birds – ABMI Species
http://species.abmi.ca/pages/species/birds.html
Native vegetation mesh size. Number of species: 243 (. Basic summaries for 117,. Full model summaries for 126 species). American Three-toed Woodpecker -. American Tree Sparrow -. American White Pelican -. Black-throated Green Warbler -. Cape May Warbler -. Great Blue Heron -. Great Crested Flycatcher -. Greater White-fronted Goose -. Great Gray Owl -. Great Horned Owl -. Le Conte's Sparrow -. Northern Hawk Owl -. Northern Rough-winged Swallow -. Northern Saw-whet Owl -. Last updated on 2016-11-08.
ayoungbotanist.blogspot.com
Stories of a Young Botanist and Adventurer of the Canadian Prairies: Botanizing at last!
http://ayoungbotanist.blogspot.com/2014/07/botanizing-at-last.html
Stories of a Young Botanist and Adventurer of the Canadian Prairies. Friday, 25 July 2014. The summer shifts at ABMI. Are mostly focused on plants, since most prairie plants go into flower later in summer (July-ish? As a plant technologist, my job is to identify and/or collect as many plants as I can at each of our sites! Put out by the Government of Alberta, is my favourite go-to field guide, although the paper covers and first few pages have long since fallen off.). Lowbush cranberry (Viburnum edule).
blog.abmi.ca
Science | ABMI Blog
http://blog.abmi.ca/category/science-centre
It's Our Nature to Know. The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Blog. All posts in Science. Announcing a new ABMI Science Letter: Effects of industrial sectors on species abundance in Alberta. Posted by: Kurt Illerbrun. Periodically, the ABMI releases an ABMI Science Letter to share the methodology and results of our latest scientific endeavours. Today, we’re excited to release our fifth Science Letter: Effects of Industrial Sectors on Species Abundance in Alberta. Read on to find out more! WeR...
blog.abmi.ca
Application Centre | ABMI Blog
http://blog.abmi.ca/category/application-centre
It's Our Nature to Know. The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Blog. All posts in Application Centre. Introducing the ABMI’s Ecosystem Services Mapping Portal. Posted by: Kurt Illerbrun. September 1, 2016. Comments Off on Introducing the ABMI’s Ecosystem Services Mapping Portal. Alberta Human Footprint Monitoring Program. Posted by: Elyse Williams. March 1, 2016. Comments Off on Alberta Human Footprint Monitoring Program. Explore Ecosystem Services in a new way Play Eco-Earner! Play Eco-earner, a...
blog.abmi.ca
biodiversity | ABMI Blog
http://blog.abmi.ca/tag/biodiversity-2
It's Our Nature to Know. The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Blog. All posts tagged biodiversity. Winners of the ABMI’s Second-annual Photo Contest. Posted by: Elyse Williams. November 9, 2015. Comments Off on Winners of the ABMI’s Second-annual Photo Contest. The ABMI Photo Contest is Back! Posted by: Elyse Williams. Above: Elk Island National Park by Yuyu Yao It’s time to dust off your camera lenses and start snapping images: the ABMI’s second-annual photo contest is back! June 9, 2015. Nerds...
blog.abmi.ca
Communications | ABMI Blog
http://blog.abmi.ca/category/communications
It's Our Nature to Know. The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Blog. All posts in Communications. Explore Ecosystem Services in a new way Play Eco-Earner! Posted by: Lindsay Monk. Want to earn points for doing good things for the environment? February 9, 2016. Comments Off on Explore Ecosystem Services in a new way Play Eco-Earner! Winners of the ABMI’s Second-annual Photo Contest. Posted by: Elyse Williams. November 9, 2015. Comments Off on Winners of the ABMI’s Second-annual Photo Contest.
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT