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City Nature Challenge & Nature Vancouver Collaboration

City Nature Challenge & Nature Vancouver Collaboration

Submitted by John Martin The City Nature Challenge is an annual global event supporting Citizen Science. It’s a day where you are encouraged to get out and observe nature. You can record any living thing, birds, plants, butterflies, frogs, fungi etc.  Click on GREATER VANCOUVER to get to the main City Nature Challenge project on iNaturalist. Here you will see  For those new to participating in a BioBlitz refer to the following internet links. You can participate on your own, in a…

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Pressed Plants: Making a Herbarium

Pressed Plants: Making a Herbarium

Book Review by Nina Shoroplova Linda P. J. Lipsen and Derek Tan’s Pressed Plants: Making a Herbarium, published in February 2023 by Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia One of the hobbies I enjoyed as a girl was pressing wildflowers. My friend Rosemary lived in a house that backed on to some wild land near Cyncoed Village. We would walk the lanes and trails collecting wildflowers: lesser celandine and meadow buttercup (we could tell the difference), willowherb, red campion, and red clover….

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False Creek BioBlitz

False Creek BioBlitz

Report & Photos by John Martin Hakai Institute and the Friends of False Creek held a citizen science bioblitz of the False Creek area from from Sep 2 to Sep 5. Nature Vancouver participated in this citizen science project as a supporting partner. Work had begun by many marine biologists from the Hakai Institute during the year but this event brought in the general community. While scientists collected and processed data in the waters of false creek, citizens were asked…

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Acoustic Survey of Bats in Ambleside Park

Acoustic Survey of Bats in Ambleside Park

Submitted by John Martin Survey Date: July 29 2022; Revised: August 01 2022 Disclaimer: Due to the potential overlap and limitations in auto-id software, the listed species detected during this survey may not be fully accurate. For more accurate identification, the bat calls should be analyzed using more sophisticated bat acoustic software. Detection Survey Information Type of Detection Survey: Bat Survey Survey Site: South side of Ambleside Pond from the west bend towards the east end of the pond. Recording Device: Echo Touch…

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City Nature Challenge – 2022

City Nature Challenge – 2022

Submitted by John Martin – May 10 Update Hello: I thought I would post the results from iNaturalist for this year’s “City Nature Challenge 2022”.Here is the link. City Nature Challenge 2022: Greater Vancouver · iNaturalist Canada For the record, my user id on inaturalist is “NorthVanDad” and as you can see, I was able to post the most observations and the highest species count for this event. There were many great observations besides mine and from all accounts the city of…

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