Bird Count: On, Weather Dependant
Written by Jeremy Zafran on 14 December 2022
The annual Christmas Bird Count is scheduled for this Saturday in Kahnawake. Kahnawa’kehró:non interested in participating in this year’s bird count are asked to contact KEPO to register. Copies of the new Kanien’kéha Bird Field Guide are available for participants. This will be the first year that the Kanien’kéha /English Bird Field Guide is available to participants. Bird Protection Quebec has been conducting the Annual Christmas Bird Count for 87 years in the Montreal area. The area covered by this survey is a 24-km wide circle centered in Montreal West. Julie Delisle is the Environmental Educational Liaison with KEPO:
“They have some really great volunteers that come to the community from Bird Protection Quebec, their usual volunteers and they’re really so knowledgeable about the area and they’ve said to me, in the one’s that I’ve participated in, that this area in Kahnàwake they see some birds that they don’t see anywhere else in the greater Montreal area and that’s because of the diverse habitats we have and the really green area that we have in the community.”
Two teams are scheduled begin at sunrise, continuing until late afternoon, and cover specific areas in the community. The Inland Team will be in the areas of Big Fence, Tekakwitha Island, green spaces along the Seaway, old railroad tracks, Tower Road, the golf clubs along the 207, and common lands near Highway 30. The Seaway Team will be in the area of the North Wall from the Ste. Catherine locks to the end of the Kahnawà:ke land base. All of this is weather permitting and could be moved due to the impending snow storm on Friday.
