Gilligallou's Blog — Conservation

As most of you know, we take a lot of pride in every product we carry in both of our Ottawa stores and as such, we believe each one we offer for sale is among the best available for the benefit of our birds. With the increasing awareness surrounding window collisions recently, much has gone […]  

Those of you that know us are aware that we take habitat very seriously.  In terms of both destruction and creation, habitat is one of the biggest challenge our birds, and many other members of the animal kingdom face today. As bee populations across the globe decline at a rapid pace, scientists and researchers have […]

Image: Scarlet Tanager via Flickr One of the first signs of spring to many of us is the calming chorus of songbirds belting out their familiar tunes from the treetops above. But what if suddenly some of those songs disappeared? According to a recent study by researchers from the Department of Ocean Sciences at Memorial […]  

While many local residents are still rebuilding and re-calibrating after this month’s historic flooding here in the Ottawa area, much of our wildlife has also been displaced by the sudden change of the landscape.  As waters rise and run into places that did not previously have water, the animals, birds, and insects are forced with […]