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Encouraging the appreciation, observation, study, conservation and protection of all components of the natural world.
Mission: Nature Calgary

 

Mountain Bluebird with bands © 2012 Stephen Spring

News, Events, and Links of Interest:

Carpool trip to Cochrane Ecological Institute to see Swift Foxes on
Aug 14: see the Field Trips page for details.

Nature Calgary congratulates long-time member Gus Yaki on receiving the Loran Goulden Award from Nature Alberta. Read more...

Nature Calgary now has a Facebook page, thanks to Melanie Seneviratne! Click on the blue f symbol in the righthand column to see it. If you have signed up in Facebook, you could "Like" our page, and you can post photos and reports from field trips, or other comments.

Nature Calgary Waterton Weekend: July 13-15. Read more...

Nature Calgary Bus Trip: Saturday June 9, to the Medicine River Wildlife Centre near Innisfail. Read more....

Spring Naturalist Weekend June 8-10, 2012 at the Barrier Lake Field Station in Kananaskis Country. Cost: $125 + GST, includes 5 meals and accommodation for 2 nights. Sponsored by Biogeoscience Institute, University of Calgary, Guest scientists include Dr. Jack Millar, small mammal population ecologist, University of Western Ontario; Dr. Steve Dobson, Columbian ground squirrel researcher, Auburn University, Alabama; and Dr. Peter Neuhaus, behavioural ecologist, University of Calgary. More info: Judy Buchanan-Mappin, ph. (403) 220-5355; email:

Nature Calgary website project: Questions or suggestions? Please contact Jan Brigden ( ) or Linda Vaxvick ( ).

 

 

 

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Check the field trips page ...changes and new trips are posted often

Next general meetings:

 

May 16, From Desert to Glaciers in Southern British Columbia, with Dr. George Scotter.

This is the last speaker meeting of the year; more meetings resume in September.

 

General meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month (except June, July & August) at 7:30pm, and are open to the public. Meetings are held at Fort Calgary

Bird Study Group:
Meetings resume in September. Come out to our birding field trips instead!

Bird Study meetings are held on the 1st Wednesday of the month (except June, July & August) at 7:30pm, in the BioSciences Rm. 211 at U of C, and are open to the public.
Campus map...

 

 

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Nature Calgary, also known as the Calgary Field Naturalists' Society (CFNS), is a thriving, not-for-profit, non-political, natural history club with over 500 members in Calgary and the surrounding area. Members have a wide variety of interests including birding, botany, conservation, natural history and the environment.

We hold monthly meetings from September to May which are open to the public. In addition many field trips are scheduled throughout the year on a wide range of topics. Everyone is welcome.

Information about joining Nature Calgary and more of the society's activities are on the society page.

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Calgary Area Nature Blogs

Birds Calgary - collaboration of three avid Calgary birders. Articles, stunning photos, bird alerts...

Calgary Birder - reflections, photos and birding location maps...

Akayokaki - Ryan Heavy Head in Blackfoot Territory

The Canadian Nature Photographer - you may see some familiar names under Featured Photographers!

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