Sam Smith Park, 2018 (Jason Ramsay-Brown)
Baycrest Hospital is looking for TFN members to participate in a fascinating study that examines how experience with bird identification reshapes the brain’s visual system and changes memory and attention. The two-session study is open to members interested “in biology/nature/classification but don’t have a specialized bird-related background”. It offers a flexible schedule and compensation for Read More
The Southern Ontario Orchid Society (SOOS) is holding their annual show on February 8th and 9th at the Toronto Botanical Gardens. This is a great opportunity to view some beautiful flowers and learn about ongoing efforts to protect and conserve Canadian orchids. There is a $2 discount coupon available on their website: https://soos.ca/. Fellow TFN Read More
Thanks to everyone who braved swirling snow, and a choppy ferry crossing to join us, yesterday, for a wonderful winter nature adventure at Ward’s Island. A special thanks to Jenny and Bob, island residents and excellent botanist and birder, who guided our hike. Our arctic-nesting and over-wintering ducks were staying close to shore to take advantage Read More
by Jason Ramsay-Brown In December, reporter Asher Elbein dragged some innocuous and irreverent seeming tidbits of Internet culture in to the venerable pages of Audubon Magazine when he posed the question “When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’?” While millions of naturalists pursue their passions on the Internet each and every day, it’s probably a safe Read More
Join the TFN Junior Naturalists this Saturday, Jan 18th, as we explore Ward’s Island looking for mammal tracks, scat, songbirds and winter weeds. Meet at 9:45am at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal for a trip through the ice, and bring your binoculars for sightings from the boat! We will conclude our adventures with a walk Read More
Come and enjoy an afternoon of photos, art and stories at our annual Nature Images Show on Saturday, February 1, 2020 from 1:30 to 4:00. The show will be held in the auditorium of S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Ave (one block south of Cosburn, 1 block west of Coxwell). TFN members will Read More
On February 4, 2018, heritage tree advocates Edith George and Peter Wynnyczuk delivered their popular lecture What makes a Heritage Tree? The Case of Toronto’s Red Oak to TFN members (see page 6 of our March 2018 newsletter). At the heart of this talk was an amazing 250-year-old heritage tree located on Coral Gable Dr. Read More
Very reluctantly, the leaders of the TFN Juniors program cancelled the TFN Juniors Birding outing to Humber Bay park, yesterday, December 14th. The persistent rainfall made our planned activities including the birding itself impossible. Although disappointing, we hope this didn’t inconvenience any of you too greatly. The good news is that the Arctic nesting ducks will still Read More
Please join the TFN Junior Naturalists this Saturday Dec 14th and welcome our over-wintering Arctic Ducks at Humber Bay Park East! How many can you tick off on your checklist? What great stories our ducks tell — maybe we’ll try a little drama! Open to people ages 6-14 accompanied by a parent. Meet in the Read More
“As members of this club we now commence a new season of fellowship in meeting and field trip. At the recent meeting of your executive committee it was decided unanimously that it would be unwise to cease our activities because of the unhappy struggle into which we are now plunged. Now is the time, if Read More
Toronto Field Naturalists wishes to acknowledge this Land through which we walk. For thousands of years, the Land has been shared by the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe. Toronto is situated on the Land within the Toronto Purchase, Treaty 13, the traditional and treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is also part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, a covenant agreement between Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Wendat peoples and allied nations to peaceably share the land and all its resources. Today, the Land is home to peoples of numerous nations. We are all grateful to have the opportunity to continue to care for and share the beauty of this Land.