Christmas Bird Count report

Dec 20, 2012 | News

Thanks to everyone who participated in the 61st Calgary Christmas Bird Count on December 16, 2012. A record number of 249 birders took part in this year’s count, with 113 feeder-watchers and 136 observers in the field. Birders in the field put in a total of 239...

Christmas Bird Count

Dec 8, 2012 | News

The Calgary Christmas Bird Count, organized by Nature Calgary, is on Sunday Dec 16.  People with any birding skill levels are welcome to join in, but you must pre-register and be assigned to an area.   More information is on our Birding page – click “See...

S.Sask Land Use Plan (Dec 21 deadline)

Dec 8, 2012 | News

The South Saskachewan basin Regional Land Use Plan is open for your written feedback till Dec 21.  Go to https://landuse.alberta.ca/Newsroom/Pages/PublicConsultations.aspx to read and comment on the recommendations of the advisory council.   The region has 45% of...

New website launched!

Nov 26, 2012 | Nature Calgary

Nature Calgary is pleased to launch our new, extensively revised website. We hope that you enjoy the new look, and will browse through it. Please note that the website is compatible with the two latest versions of the browsers Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet...

Mountain Bluebird article in Nature Alberta magazine

Nov 23, 2012 | News

Our long-time members Don Stiles has written the featured article (on Mountain Bluebirds on Calgary-area Bluebird Trails)in the Fall 2012 edition of the magazine Nature Alberta, published by Nature Alberta. This is a very worthwhile magazine, with fabulous photos and...

Board renewal and opportunities

Nov 15, 2012 | News

In order to pursue new activities requested by the members, and to maintain a healthy turnover of directors, we are encouraging the membership to put forward names for nomination at the AGM this year.  Nature Calgary has an understaffed Board at present, and is just...

Browser compatibility and download

Nov 15, 2012 | News

Like most newly-built websites, ours is designed to work with the latest two versions of the most popular browsers.  If you have an older version of an Internet browser, particularly Internet Explorer, you may find that our home page, in particular, does not display...

Banquet Tickets Selling Fast

Sep 26, 2012 | Nature Calgary

Annual Banquet Saturday Nov 3 will feature Karsten Heuer speaking on “Finding Farley – A young family’s cross-Canada adventure to visit Canadian literary legend, Farley Mowat, in a most unusual way”. Deadline for ticket purchase is Oct 26. Details and...

Vacancies – Nature Calgary Board

Sep 25, 2012 | Nature Calgary

Members are invited to put their names forward for any and all Board positions, to be voted upon at the December 2012 AGM.   We could use your help in many areas, as some current board members will be stepping down.  Nature Calgary is run entirely by volunteers and we...

Bird Checklist revised

Sep 20, 2012 | Nature Calgary

The Checklist of Calgary birds has been updated by Dan Arndt and other Bird Study Group members. You can download it from the Birding page.