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In celebration of World Migratory Bird Day and to mark Kitchener’s first year as a Bird Friendly City, KPL Central will be screening Lights Out Texas throughout the month of May. This screening aims to raise awareness about the importance of creating safer environments for wildlife, especially migratory birds. We invite everyone to join us […]
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In celebration of World Migratory Bird Day and to mark Kitchener’s first year as a Bird Friendly City, KPL Central will be screening Lights Out Texas throughout the month of May. This screening aims to raise awareness about the importance of creating safer environments for wildlife, especially migratory birds. We invite everyone to join us […] |
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Lakeside Park guided birding with David Gascoigne & Mary Ann Vanden Elzen. For novice and expert alike, this is a celebration of the birds that call Lakeside home or migration waypoint. Come on out and appreciate all our feathered friends in the heart of Kitchener. Meeting at the Lakeside Dr. playground parking lot <- […]
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Join Kitchener's Bird Team to learn about how glass collisions are preventable and what you can do to help! This talk is part of our drop in programming. Registration is not required but helps us keep track of attendance. When Worlds Collide. Patricia Seaton Homonylo won 2024's Bird Photographer of the Year for this photo […]
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Join Kitchener's Bird Team to learn about how the simple action of turning off a light can save a life. This talk is part of our drop in programming. Registration is not required but helps us keep track of attendance. |
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Join us in creating bird-safe windows with UW's Society for Ecological Restoration. Get hands on experience in creating bird safe design on windows with UW-SER. Learn about this student group and their work, why window strike monitoring and prevention matters and what you can do! This is part of our drop in programming but […] |
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A male American Kestrel surveys the area outside a big nest box that a pair has adopted for the nesting season. Big nest boxes supplement the lack of safe, natural nesting cavities and help to reduce competition for nest sitesImage from www.birdingwird.com Stop by Square Peg on Friday May 9th for tips and examples of […] |
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Well known as the park in the middle of Kitchener's downtown, Victoria Park is there for urbanites to take a moment to enjoy the birds especially on World Migratory Bird Day! Victoria Park guided birding is for birders of all levels of experience and interest. Be sure to say hi to Otis and Ophelia, the […]
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In celebration of World Migratory Bird Day and to mark Kitchener’s first year as a Bird Friendly City, KPL Central will be screening Lights Out Texas throughout the month of May. This screening aims to raise awareness about the importance of creating safer environments for wildlife, especially migratory birds. We invite everyone to join us […]
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Pop-up Market featuring TWB "Junco City" beer tasting, and bird friendly vendors
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In celebration of World Migratory Bird Day and to mark Kitchener’s first year as a Bird Friendly City, KPL Central will be screening Lights Out Texas throughout the month of May. This screening aims to raise awareness about the importance of creating safer environments for wildlife, especially migratory birds. We invite everyone to join us […]
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"If there are miracles in this world then migration is surely the greatest of all. Little birds, some weighing no more than a few grams, unerringly find their way to and from their breeding territories each year, often covering vast distances to do so. How do they do it? Come and find out and share […]
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Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has an ambitious goal: to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. But the path to survival is fraught with danger. This heart-expanding Sundance hit introduces audiences to Terry's diminutive patients through breathtaking slow-motion photography and emotional storytelling. |
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Join us for an afternoon of needle felting, making birds! Spencer of all Trades and Stabby Gilmore welcome you to fly into Square Peg for their pop up class to show love and support for our bird friends, moms (of all species ☺️) and mother figures. You know what they say "Two birds, one...." […] |
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Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has an ambitious goal: to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. But the path to survival is fraught with danger. This heart-expanding Sundance hit introduces audiences to Terry's diminutive patients through breathtaking slow-motion photography and emotional storytelling. |
2 events,When humans dispersed across the landscape, they unintentionally benefitted Barn Swallows and Cliff Swallows by creating structures such as barns, outbuildings, and bridges, which both species use as nesting sites. In spite of this, today both species are declining across significant portions of their ranges, due to habitat loss but also due to other anthropogenic […] |
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Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has an ambitious goal: to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. But the path to survival is fraught with danger. This heart-expanding Sundance hit introduces audiences to Terry's diminutive patients through breathtaking slow-motion photography and emotional storytelling.
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Join Kitchener's Bird Team to learn about how glass collisions are preventable and what you can do to help! This talk is part of our drop in programming. Registration is not required but helps us keep track of attendance. When Worlds Collide. Patricia Seaton Homonylo won 2024's Bird Photographer of the Year for this photo […]
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TWB is celebrating World Migratory Bird May with Bird Friendly Kitchener, and they're taken flight with four bird-themed beers - so naturally, we’re flocking together for a bird-themed trivia night! Bird is the Word Trivia is soaring in with questions all about pop culture’s finest feathered friends. From Big Bird to Zazu, Hedwig to Blu, […] |
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Join us on Thursday May 15th from 5 to 7pm at the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery for the opening reception of Mara Silver's Nestcraft. Curated by Bird Friendly Kitchener founders Marcel O’Gorman and Jennifer Clary-Lemon of Critical Media Lab (CML), the exhibition features study skins of swallows from the Royal Ontario Museum, barn timbers […] |
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"Conservation of Cliff and Barn Swallows in the Northeast" A talk by Mara Silver, conservationist and artist, is the director and founder of www.swallowconservation.org. The purpose of Swallow Conservation is to educate wildlife agencies, conservation organizations, and the public on the swallows of northeastern North America and the importance of their conservation through consultation and […] |
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Huron Natural Area guided birding with Bird Team members Grace Pitman and Fraser Gibson. Huron Natural Area is one of the most beloved natural places not only in Kitchener but the region. A favourite among bird watchers and urban nature explorers. Tree swallows, black capped chickadees, wood ducks and great blue herons are just a […]
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In celebration of World Migratory Bird Day and to mark Kitchener’s first year as a Bird Friendly City, KPL Central will be screening Lights Out Texas throughout the month of May. This screening aims to raise awareness about the importance of creating safer environments for wildlife, especially migratory birds. We invite everyone to join us […]
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Join us as local artist Adrienne Zoe takes us through her work and passion as a photographer, conservationist and artist. 1:30pm to 2:30pm. This talk is part of our drop in programming. Registration is not required but helps us keep track of attendance.
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In celebration of World Migratory Bird Day and to mark Kitchener’s first year as a Bird Friendly City, KPL Central will be screening Lights Out Texas throughout the month of May. This screening aims to raise awareness about the importance of creating safer environments for wildlife, especially migratory birds. We invite everyone to join us […]
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Anita Smith, coordinator of Waterloo Region Nature Teens, joins Bird Friendly Kitchener to read her book about an unlikely favourite. “A Remarkable Redhead”, is a children’s story about an important, wonderful and weird bird. All are welcome to drop in to this family friendly event. Drop in. |
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Join us at Square Peg to learn and engage with Cathy Hale of Wild Birds Unlimited Kitchener as she teaches us the best practices people can do to save our songbirds. With the loss of habitat being a huge cause for the population decline, it is important to stress that birds that feed in your […]
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Waterloo Region Nature Teens Swiftwatch with Grace Pitman and Natasha Barlow Meet at Square Peg To participate in this outing you will be asked to sign a waiver form. |
2 events,When humans dispersed across the landscape, they unintentionally benefitted Barn Swallows and Cliff Swallows by creating structures such as barns, outbuildings, and bridges, which both species use as nesting sites. In spite of this, today both species are declining across significant portions of their ranges, due to habitat loss but also due to other anthropogenic […] |
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Agnes Niewiadomski and Michelle Purchase join us at Square Peg as part of their community weaving workshops to bring "Swoop" to the MCCC! As new public art for the Mill-Courtland Community Centre “Swoop” by Agnes Niewiadomski and Michelle Purchase will use basket-weaving techniques to craft a flight of hand-woven willow swallows that will hang from […] |
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Join Kitchener's Bird Team to learn about how the simple action of turning off a light can save a life. This talk is part of our drop in programming. Registration is not required but helps us keep track of attendance. |
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Please be aware pick up at Sq peg will only be available until 12 noon today! Junco tees not picked up from Sq Peg can be picked up from TWB Brewery from June 1st onwards.
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POSTPONED “Art as a Gateway to Advocacy," a talk by featured SqPeg artist Meredith Blunt
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Swiftwatch outing with Grace Pitman and Roger Suffling Meet at Square Peg Space Registration required - 15 participant spaces To participate in this outing you will be asked to sign a waiver form. |
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In celebration of World Migratory Bird Day and to mark Kitchener’s first year as a Bird Friendly City, KPL Central will be screening Lights Out Texas throughout the month of May. This screening aims to raise awareness about the importance of creating safer environments for wildlife, especially migratory birds. We invite everyone to join us […]
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Willow River Birding for All, guided by KW Queer birders and Bird Friendly Team member Morgan R. Bird Friendly Kitchener is thrilled to partner with KW Queer Birders as part of their Spring outings schedule! We will travel from Square Peg in downtown Kitchener to Willow River Park. We'll look for urban birds in the […]
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In celebration of World Migratory Bird Day and to mark Kitchener’s first year as a Bird Friendly City, KPL Central will be screening Lights Out Texas throughout the month of May. This screening aims to raise awareness about the importance of creating safer environments for wildlife, especially migratory birds. We invite everyone to join us […] |
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2 events,When humans dispersed across the landscape, they unintentionally benefitted Barn Swallows and Cliff Swallows by creating structures such as barns, outbuildings, and bridges, which both species use as nesting sites. In spite of this, today both species are declining across significant portions of their ranges, due to habitat loss but also due to other anthropogenic […] |
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"More-than-human Illuminations: Re-imagining spaces of Rest” a talk by rare’s artist-in-residence, Lauren Judge This talk is part of our drop in programming. Registration is not required but helps us keep track of attendance.
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Join Kitchener's Bird Team to learn about how glass collisions are preventable and what you can do to help! This talk is part of our drop in programming. Registration is not required but helps us keep track of attendance. When Worlds Collide. Patricia Seaton Homonylo won 2024's Bird Photographer of the Year for this photo […] |
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Join Kitchener's Bird Team to learn about how the simple action of turning off a light can save a life. This talk is part of our drop in programming. Registration is not required but helps us keep track of attendance. |
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Many bird species have learned to adapt to an urban existence, some with greater success than others – some actually thrive! They are part of an environment that has been anthropogenically modified, forming unique ecosystems, where different organisms in the web of life operate synergistically and create vibrant natural communities. Come and explore this wonderful […] |
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Join Kitchener's Bird Team to learn about how glass collisions are preventable and what you can do to help! This talk is part of our drop in programming. Registration is not required but helps us keep track of attendance. When Worlds Collide. Patricia Seaton Homonylo won 2024's Bird Photographer of the Year for this photo […]
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Join Kitchener's Bird Team to learn about how the simple action of turning off a light can save a life. This talk is part of our drop in programming. Registration is not required but helps us keep track of attendance. |
