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Do you have
birds visiting your yard or an area visible from a window?
There’s a great
opportunity to get involved with bio-science – all you have to do is grab your
favourite beverage and some form of record keeping (digital voice recorder or a
pen/paper).
Projects like these are frequently offered to individuals, groups,
family, school projects, seniors and others who care about science and
wildlife.
Typically they involve counting types of insects or birds or other
wildlife in the area you happen to be.
Scientists use that information in a
huge number of ways and these counts are particularly important to conservation
and wildlife management programs.
Just do a search online to find “citizen
science” projects to find all kinds of great opportunities.
For instance re: birds, Project FeederWatch will send you
everything you need to get started via:
https://feederwatch.org/join-or-renew/?utm_source=Cornell+Lab+eNews&utm_campaign=db322cf689-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_47588b5758-db322cf689-314597221
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Using the keywords "citizen science projects in Canada" dozens of pages of links showed up including these I found on the first page:
ReplyDeletewww.citizenscientists.ca
www.telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca/get-involved/citizen-science
http://naturecanada.ca/tag/citizen-science/
http://www.birdscanada.org/volunteer.jsp
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/ab/waterton/activ/benevolat-volunteer/citoyenne-citizen
http://www.oceannetworks.ca/learning/get-involved/citizen-science
http://www.citizensciencecenter.com/
A new comment arrived to my private inbox - they suggested that people select: interest interested i.e. "lake BC, Canada"; "beetles backyard BC, Canada" to fine-tune the citizen projects available to them. There are plenty of worldwide projects too, so while this suggestion is valid and useful, I do hope it doesn't limit participation in global projects.
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