Backyard Surveys take place in or near backyards for three minutes every night from April to August. The Lennox marsh has had approximately 150 pairs of terns. The Canadian Wildlife Service is interested in monitoring the Lennox property colony and is conducting egg counts and young bird counts. The KFN will undertake the Black Tern survey using funding from Ontario's Corporate Citizenship Program and we will receive a report on the results of the survey. Ron Weir Canadian Lakes Loon Survey , initiated by the Long Point Bird Observatory in the early 1900s, is a long-term project designed to monitor the abundance and breeding success of Common Loons across Canada.
Volunteers check lakes for loon presence and chick survival during the summer.
One of Ontario's rarest breeding bird species, the Loggerhead Shrike, is in great danger of extirpation. Habitat loss and degradation, and collisions with cars are among the major causes of the population decline. Every breeding season since 1991, a survey of shrike populations has been carried out. KFN member, Chris Grooms, has been conducting studies each summer since 1992 of Loggerhead Shrikes in the Napanee breeding core. Most of the potential habitat near the core breeding areas has been mapped and classified and some spatial analysis has been performed on this data.