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Yukon Bird Club
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We're the organization for bird lovers in the Yukon. We promote awareness, appreciation of Yukon birds and their habitats, and
act as an advocate for bird conservation.
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The 40th Annual Helmut Grunberg Yukon Birdathon was a great success yesterday. The winning team recorded 126 species, and the combined total was a whopping 159 species! You can donate to support bird conservation in the Yukon at yukonbirds.ca/... just click on donate and choose Birdathon Fund!
A lone birder scans the skies along an alpine ridge, with snow-capped mountains in the background
June 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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sydcannings1.bsky.social
Today was the annual First Day of Swainson's Thrush Song, an important feast day in the boreal forest calendar! #birds
a brown and white Swainson's Thrush perched in an aspen tree.
May 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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The most demure of warblers, an Orange-crowned Warbler shyly shows off its extremely subtle orange crown upon arrival in the Yukon. #birds
May 16, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Yukon birders were out in force yesterday, participating in #GlobalBigDay. Despite snow piling down in the morning (in Whitehorse, at least), they recorded 107 species on 133 separate checklists! The last species of the day was a Boreal Owl heard singing at 11:51 pm! #birds
May 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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So many remarkable migration stories happening outside today! #birds
sydcannings1.bsky.social Syd Cannings @sydcannings1.bsky.social · May 10
Happy #WorldMigratoryBirdDay! My favourite migrant is the Hudsonian Godwit, which flies through S Yukon on its way to NW Alaska. Two arrived last week with tags showing that they had been banded in S Chile... they've already traveled 12,000 km and have more than 1000 km to go! Photos: J. Jantunen
Male Hudsonian Godwit with long, straight, pink and black bill, long legs, orange belly walking on mud flat Female Hudsonian Godwit in shallow blue water, probing for food with her long straight bill
May 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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We'll be seeing these beauties and much more along Quartz Road wetland in Whitehorse on Friday afternoon 8 May at 5:30 pm! Meet at the back Boston Pizza parking lot.
yukonbirds.ca/wp-content/u...
May 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Spectacular show at the Faro Crane & Sheep Festival this past weekend! Yukon Bird Club folks counted 69,440 (let's just say 70,000!) Sandhill Cranes on Sunday alone. More passed through on Saturday, and "thousands ... continue streaming over" this morning as well. Photos by Cameron Eckert. #birds
birders look to the blue sky to count cranes in Faro Huge flock of Sandhill Cranes fly overhead against a blue sky closeup of the head of a flock of cranes flying overhead
May 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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sydcannings1.bsky.social
"Who're you looking at?"

Exciting to finally see what will soon be an everyday neighbourhood bird... the White-crowned Sparrows are back in Whitehorse! #birds #Yukon
May 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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sydcannings1.bsky.social
For the last few mornings I've been woken by the honking of Trumpeter Swans flying over my house! Most of the ones that pass through Whitehorse, Yukon are heading west into the interior of Alaska... This pair was on the Yukon River at the mouth of McIntyre Creek. #birds
two swans flying low over the water, next to an ice shelf on the Yukon River
April 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The 2025 field trip schedule for the Yukon Bird Club is now up on our website! 33 trips throughout the Yukon... first one this Friday evening! All the details at:
yukonbirds.ca/field-trips/
April 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Alarming Report Finds US Bird Populations Are Still Crashing

by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#ornithology🪶 #birds🦉 #birding🔭 #StateOfTheBirds #endangered #conservation🌎 #ClimateCrisis #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
Alarming Report Finds US Bird Populations Are Still Crashing
About one-third of all American bird species are of high or moderate conservation concern due to low populations, declining population trends, or other threats.
www.forbes.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The report for the 2024 Whitehorse Christmas Bird Count is now up on our website. Record number of participants (57) and high counts for Mallard (135), Northern Shrike (2), American Crow (12), Red-breasted Nuthatch (27), and Red Crossbill (176)! 26 species in all...

yukonbirds.ca/report-white...
A perched male Red Crossbill stands out against a blue sky.
January 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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The Yukon Bird Club is finally here on Bluesky. Follow us for bird news and events north of 60! #birds

Photo: American Three-toed Woodpecker, Whitehorse. Syd Cannings
American 3-toed Woodpecker on the trunk of a big spruce tree
January 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM