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FLAP in 2020: Our Favourite Achievements

January 9, 2021/in Our Impact /by FLAP Canada

The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly made 2020 a year like no other. But, despite all the challenges this year has thrown at us, we at FLAP Canada have never stopped fighting to be a voice for birds. Things looked very different in 2020. To keep our volunteers, staff, and community safe, we made the difficult […]

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Choosing Coffee That Supports Bird Conservation

December 6, 2020/in News, Take Action /by Lisa Horn

Ah, coffee. Many of us can’t get through our day without a cup (or three). Coffee is one of the world’s most popular beverages, but our addiction to caffeine can come with a steep environmental price tag. Most of the coffee we drink comes from plantations that destroy and clear native forest to grow coffee […]

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Meet the Birds of Global Bird Rescue: 2020 Edition

November 26, 2020/in News, Our Impact /by FLAP Canada

By Kaitlin Brough, FLAP Canada’s Global Bird Rescue Coordinator for 2019 & 2020 As we enter into colder weather in North America, most of the migratory birds have already made their passage south. Sadly, many of these birds never arrive at their wintering grounds because they are killed or injured from collisions with glass during […]

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Volunteer Spotlight: Vicki Soon-Ai Low

October 18, 2020/in Volunteer Spotlight /by FLAP Canada

How long have you been a FLAP volunteer? I have volunteered for FLAP since 2007. In what capacity do you volunteer? I have done a few different things. I patrolled at Consilium Place until a few years ago (and was proud to be one of the witnesses in the lawsuit brought by Ecojustice against the […]

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Mitigating Glass Railings

October 1, 2020/in Guest Post, News, Take Action /by FLAP Canada

By John Carley All FLAP volunteers and supporters are well aware of the dangers windows present to birds, but all too often we forget about other architectural uses of glass. You’ve probably seen the ad, or one similar – Undisturbed, natural, beautiful – extolling the virtues of frameless glass railings for your home or cottage. […]

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Keep Cats Safe and Save Bird Lives

September 13, 2020/in Guest Post, News /by FLAP Canada

By Ted Cheskey and Aly Hyder Ali, Nature Canada In 2013, Canadian Bird Scientist Peter Blanchard authored one of several scientific papers, published in the Journal Avian Ecology and Conservation on human-related causes of bird mortality.  The papers quantified a spectrum of human-related causes of bird mortality, using the best science available. The result was […]

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An Affordable DIY Option to Prevent Birds From Hitting Windows

September 1, 2020/in Take Action /by Lisa Horn

Homeowners may be shocked and disheartened when a bird hits their window, but the sad truth is that this happens much more frequently than people think. In Canada, an estimated 25 million birds perish every year due to collisions with glass. 90% of these collisions are thought to happen at single family homes. There is […]

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Three Things You Probably Didn’t Know About: Northern Waterthrush

August 13, 2020/in Fast Facts /by Lisa Horn

Early on a muggy morning in late summer, you head out to your favourite birding hotspot in the hopes of spotting some early migrants. Inside the leafy green canopy of the forest, it’s surprisingly cool and pleasant. Your shoes crunch softly on the crushed gravel of the trail as you come up to a small […]

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Backyards for Birds

July 25, 2020/in Guest Post, Take Action /by FLAP Canada

By Irene Fedun, Founding Member of FLAP Canada      As a founding member of the Fatal Light Awareness Program, I am all too familiar with the painful thud of a bird hitting a window….at the glass towers of downtown Toronto.    I’d never known – and never expected – a bird to hit a window in […]

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Volunteer Spotlight: Ben Coleman

June 21, 2020/in Volunteer Spotlight /by FLAP Canada

How long have you been a FLAP volunteer? Since about January 2018. I think I first learned about FLAP in late 2016 when one of my classmates in university gave a final project presentation on bird collisions. In what capacity do you volunteer? I volunteer as a board member. In addition to studying ecology and […]

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