Humber ArboretumEarlier this month 5 young Common Snapping Turtles raised at the Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre were released at the Arboretum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOzGw86yKFU
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Looking a little more closely at some photos from Thursday, it seems this Yellow Warbler was working on her nest. Cornell's All About Birds website says Yellow Warblers build their nest over a period of about 4 days, so there's a good chance she's already laid her eggs!
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Spring is hopping and so is our iNaturalist project, the Humber Arboretum Atlas. To date 285 people have uploaded their Arboretum sightings to the iNaturalist citizen science platform, recording over 700 species. If you're a local iNaturalist user, we'd love to have you drop by the Arb and see what you can find: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/humber-arboretum-atlas
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Humber Arboretum Atlas
Help us chronicle the diversity of life at the Humber Arboretum. How many species can be found within this urban green space? Observations made within the Arb are automatically added to this project, but you can also join the project to keep up to date with new sightings, help identify observations, take part in challenges, and read journal entries and news from the Arboretum. We encourage students and staff from Humber College, along with local community members and visitors from the City of Toronto, the Province of Ontario, or all over the world to take part in this project and explore the biodiversity found in one patch of North Etobicoke. Learn more about the Humber Arboretum: www.humber.ca/arboretum www.twitter.com/humberarb | www.facebook.com/humberarb | www.instagram.com/humberarb *When using iNaturalist at the Arboretum, please remember that the focus of iNaturalist is on observing wild organisms. If you decide to upload observations of plants which have been deliberately pl...
It was turtlepalooza in the ponds today. The warm weather brought everyone out for a good bask. There were at least a dozen Midland Painted Turtles out sunbathing in one pond, and later the Snapping Turtle was spotted slowly swimming around the same area.
The hottest spring fashion trend at the Arb is the Mourning Cloak Butterfly. Mourning Cloaks are one of the types of butterflies who overwinter as adults (rather than as eggs or caterpillars) so they are usually the first butterfly we see in the spring. Several were spotted yesterday fluttering around the woodland trails, though only this one stopped to pose as a hat accessory.
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Want to learn how to use iNaturalist and participate in the upcoming City Nature Challenge? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has a webinar for that!
April 12 at noon: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dlFsynGCRqqdaXWanMlGNg
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Join your community in tracking biodiversity: How to use iNaturalist to participate in the 2023 City Nature Challenge! . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Learn how to help your city compete on the world stage in the 2023 City Nature Challenge as 42 Canadian cities compete with each other and over 400 other cities worldwide in a friendly biodiversity challenge. In this webinar, CWF’s James Pagé will explain how to contribute to this annual global event by recording as many wild plants and animals as possible using the iNaturalist Canada platform. If you can take a photo, you can contribute to conservation – find out how, as we approach the start of the City Nature Challenge. Not in a participating city? No problem, you can still contribute to iNaturalist anytime from anywhere throughout the year! Plus, we need everyone’s help in identifying what was found, even if it’s as simple as a Canada Goose.