Christian Artuso: Birds, Wildlife

Jaegers on the big lakes of southern Manitoba are far from common; so I was ecstatic when Josiah Van Egmond called out “jaeger” as we were s...

The Santa Marta Screech-Owl has finally been described as Megascops gilesi by Niels Krabbe. First "discovered" in 2007, I took th...

Manitoba's first and Canada's third Painted Redstart ( Myioborus pictus ), also known as "Painted Whitestart", showed up ...

This is short post to document the Harlequin Duck found by Matt Gasner on Sunday 28 th as part of the Delta Important Bird Area blitz ( ...

While scouting for our Important Bird Area (IBA) blitz in the Southwest Mixed-Grass Prairie Important Bird IBA, Tim Poole and I were driving...

When a once abundant species like Hooded Vulture gets upgraded to Critically endangered (CR) , there is clearly something very wrong! Birdl...

The Ellice-Archie and Spy-Hill-Ellice PFRA community pastures are two grassland gems of critical importance to grassland birds in Manitoba. ...

Early spring and late fall is the time to be on the look out for Golden Eagles, a very uncommon species in Manitoba. Of course, you alw...

Special thanks to Donna Martin for sharing her sightings of  Least Bittern ( Ixobrychus exilis ) in the Shoal Lakes Important Bird Area. I...