WildResearch’s mission is to build, train, and educate a community that contributes to conservation science.
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Adult male Yellow Warbler at the Iona Island Bird Observatory.
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Sunrise at Iona Island.
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Happy birders on the 2013 WildResearch Pelagic Trip.
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Adult male Calliope Hummingbird at the Iona Island Bird Observatory.
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WildResearch members spot something during a Winter ID workshop.
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An Audubon’s Warbler is banded at the Iona Island Bird Observatory.
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WildResearch volunteers take down a mist net at the Iona Island Bird Observatory.
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Mourning cloak butterfly found during the BC Butterfly Survey.
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Bander-in-Charge Leena Tirrul training volunteers at the Iona Island Bird Observatory.
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Northern Saw-whet Owl caught at the Iona Island Bird Observatory.
Our Programs
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Iona Island Bird Observatory
The Iona Island Bird Observatory operates three programs throughout the year that monitor the birds that use Iona Beach Regional Park.
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NightJar Surveys
The WildResearch Nightjar Survey is a citizen science program that collects data on an understudied group of nocturnal birds.
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BC Butterfly Survey
The BC Butterfly Atlas is a community-based citizen science project aimed at increasing our knowledge of the status and distribution of butterflies in British Columbia.
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Special Events
Pelagic Trips
Once a year, we sail from Ucluelet, BC aboard the MV Frances Barkley on a seven hour voyage to La Perouse Bank in search of pelagic birds. The trip is a fundraiser for WildResearch's programs.
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Rosemary and Peter Grant on their decades of discovery in the Galapagos, and what's to come: https://t.co/YwYjQeBNHK via @QuantaMagazine
- Wednesday Sep 28 - 10:55pm
Yellow-rumped Warblers are a familiar sight at #IIBO, but may be due for a taxonomic split: https://t.co/fXdcCymmyb https://t.co/T59Ir4BbDu
- Tuesday Sep 27 - 6:28pm
Over the weekend, we had a chance to engage the young bird enthusiasts of @girlguidesofcan at #IIBO!… https://t.co/onR4qcqbWK
- Tuesday Sep 27 - 12:23am
This Fall's EarthWorks speaker series hosted at @CapilanoU begins tomorrow! https://t.co/aBc3ew48d0 https://t.co/7KryXK28dG
- Monday Sep 26 - 11:32pm
Our Photos
Working at the Iona Banding Station