In the Blog: For Members

Monarch butterfly on Black Eyed Susan

The Monarchs of Europe

by Jason Ramsay-Brown It’s funny the things we don’t think to question. Some time before I was ten years old, my mother taught me that song sparrows were called chickadees. Read More

View of cormorant colony at Leslie Spit / Tommy Thompson Park

The Spit on NoT

Over the past year, the crew of CBC’s The Nature of Things has been all over Tommy Thompson Park filming Accidental Wilderness: The Leslie Street Spit. This documentary debuted February Read More

Nature Images Show Round Up

On Saturday, February 1, TFN Members descended on the S. Walter Stewart Library for our annual Nature Images Show, a wonderful afternoon full of amazing work, good friends, and tasty Read More

2019 Youth Summit participants. Photo © Noah Cole

Thank You Messages from the 2019 Youth Summit

In September, 2019, TFN provided full scholarships for five GTA high school students to attend Ontario Nature’s annual Youth Summit for Biodiversity and Environmental Leadership at Geneva Park on Lake Read More

Tree Swallow in Cottonwood Flats

Baycrest, birds & the brain

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. Read More

Lady's Slipper

SOOS annual orchid show Feb. 8 & 9

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 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.