MONITORING: LEARN, PARTICIPATE

Volunteers are appreciated to help with monitoring, research projects, land stewardship and restoration activities, fundraising and special projects. To volunteer for The Land Between, contact us.

Ontario Nature's Volunteer for Nature program offers volunteering in hands-on projects such as bird, butterfly and dragonfly counts, boardwalk building, native tree planting and seed collection. Annual calendars are available at www.ontarionature.org/action/ (External Link)

Join a naturalist group. To find a nature group in your area, go to www.ontarionature.org/network/ (External Link)

Kids for Turtles, Sciensational Ssnakes and the Toronto Zoo Adopt a Pond offer hands on educational workshops for all ages. Call or email to book an event:
www.torontozoo.com/AdoptAPond/ (External Link)
www.kidsforturtles.com (External Link)
www.scisnake.com (External Link)

Learning to identify and document wildlife species is a great way to appreciate the character and quality of your land, and reporting wildlife also helps organizations characterize and steward the larger landscape.

The Land Between tracks species across the region in order to understand the functions and conditions of the ecotone. This information then helps us to prioritize efforts and share the news. Sensitive data is shared only with your consent

Report a sighting here: The Land Between Observer

A variety of time-honored wildlife monitoring programs across Ontario also benefit from submissions and volunteer participation.

Bird Monitoring Across Ontario:

• Bird Banding Office (Canada)
  www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/nwrc-cnrf/ (External Link)
• Canadian Migration Monitoring Network
  www.bsc-eoc.org/national/cmmn.html (External Link)
• Canadian Lakes Loon Survey
  www.bsc-eoc.org/cllsmain.html (External Link)
• Christmas Bird Count in Canada
  www.bsc-eoc.org/national/cbcmain.html (External Link)
• Nocturnal Owl Monitoring Programs
  www.bsc-eoc.org/national/nationalowls.html (External Link)
• Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas
  www.birdsontario.org/atlas/atlasmain.html (External Link)
• Ontario Hummingbird Project
  www.ontariohummingbirds.ca/ (External Link)
• Project FeederWatch
  www.bsc-eoc.org/national/pfw.html (External Link)
• Project NestWatch (Online Nest Records Scheme)
  www.bsc-eoc.org/national/nestwatch.html (External Link)

Turtle Tally: www.torontozoo.com/AdoptAPond/ (External Link)

Invasive Species Watch: www.invadingspecies.com (External Link)

Species at Risk: nhic.mnr.gov.on.ca (External Link)

Nature Watch, including FrogWatch, PlantWatch, WormWatch and IceWatch
Environment Canada, in partnership with Citizen Science, collects information on indicators of ecosystem health and climate change. New "citizen science" programmes will soon be available on lichens, tree health and benthic macroinvertebrates. www.eman-rese.ca (External Link)

Trent Severn Waterway Turtle Hotline: (705) 875-2240.

Trent Severn Waterway’s Waterway Wildlife Program: www.waterwaywildlife.com (External Link)