The woods in Selkirk Provincial Park are dominated by red and white oaks, with maple, cherry, ash, beech, and shagbark hickory mixed in. The park is noted for some of its rare prairie plants. Rock Point Banding Station is located in Rock Point Provincial Park near Dunnville. The site is dominated by dogwood, cranberry and small stands of spruce. The 10 mist nets are located off a no-access road in the southwest side of the park.
Birds take advantage of the habitat as they migrate along the north shore of Lake Erie.
Ruthven Banding Station is within the grounds of an historic mansion. This site has nets located around the edge of a meadow. The site takes advantage of birds migrating along the Grand River and the 1000 acres of protected forest adjacent to the site. In spring, banding and a daily census are done from approximately the third weekend in March to the first weekend in June and, in fall, from the third weekend in July to the first weekend in November.