Posted with permission of the ONTBIRDS coordinator:
Journey North and the 850,000 students in Canada and the United States who study season migration through this program would like to thank ONTBIRDS members for sharing their natural history sightings in 2011, and in particular monarch butterfly sightings during the migration periods. The last monarch reported to date was November 13th at the DRHW Metropark location. Please send further late monarch sightings directly to Journey North or this writer, but NOT to ONTBIRDS. Other Ontario butterfly sightings can be forwarded to [email protected] for the T.E.A. Annual Summary of Lepidoptera Sightings in Ontario. Work is underway to develop a new digital version of the Ontario Butterfly Atlas using methods similar to what is used for bird atlases. See: http://www.ontarioinsects.org/atlas_online.htm . Lastly, ONTBIRD contributor and well known epidopterist Peter Hall, co-author of Butterflies of Canada and Research Association with the Canadian National Insect Collection will be speaking this Saturday in Toronto about "Sentinels on the Wing: the Status and Conservation of Butterflies in Canada at the First Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture. Saturday, November 19th at 1:15 pm in the Ramsay Wright Biological Laboratories (University of Toronto), 25 Harbord Street at St. George (10 minute walk south of St. George subway station). All are welcomed and a reception will follow. Email this writer privately if you would like a copy of the poster for this event. Thanks again, Don Davis Toronto, Ontario, Canada _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
