Gilligallou's Blog

  Love is certainly in the air this time of the year for our backyard birds.  As more and more of our summer residents continue to arrive here in the Ottawa area, we are treated to lovely spring mornings filled with fluttering birds and their accompanying songs. As we progress into the month of May, […]  

A hearty sparrow that calls the northern portion of much of Canada and most of British Columbia home for the summer breeding season now might be the best time to catch a glimpse of one heading through the Ottawa area. Making their way north from their wintering grounds scattered throughout the southern United States and […]

In the fall of 2015, we wrote a piece about the challenges facing what should be (and once was) one of Canada’s most plentiful bird species.  The rusty blackbird, slightly smaller in size than a robin, has since been listed as a vulnerable species as researchers across North America scramble to get a handle on […]  

The sparrow family of passerines is perhaps one of the most confusing of all the bird families.  With so many species featuring similar markings and overall colouring, it can often be difficult to decipher one from the other until you learn the markings that make them stand apart such as, white-throated sparrows from your white-crowned […]