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Accès au campus et aux immeubles, cours et modalités de travail : retour à la normale à compter du samedi 12 octobre. Complément d’information : Direction de la protection et de la prévention.

Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue recognized as 'Bird Friendly City'

Published: 9 January 2023

During the UN biodiversity summit known as COP15, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue was one of 14 cities in Canada, and the only place in Quebec, to be named a "Bird Friendly City." Nature Canada developed this

Why are some birds more intelligent than others?

Published: 1 August 2022

If you’ve ever seen a starling peck open a garbage bag or a grackle steal your dog pellets, you get a sense that some birds have learned to take advantage of new feeding opportunities – a clear...

Virtual Event | Birding Mount Royal Yesterday and Today

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 12:00to13:00

Event Description: 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA/libraryCategory: Libraries

Arctic seabirds are less heat tolerant, more vulnerable to climate change

Published: 7 July 2021

The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the global rate. A new study led by researchers from McGill University finds that cold-adapted Arctic species, like the thick-billed murre, are...

Reduction in wetland areas will affect Afrotropical migratory waterbirds

Published: 30 April 2021

Migratory waterbirds are particularly exposed to the effects of climate change at their breeding areas in the High Arctic and in Africa, according to a new study published in Bird Conservation...

The Fascinating World of Birds

Monday, March 1, 2021toFriday, March 5, 2021

For the Spring break come explore the fascinating world of birds!/macdonaldCategory: Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Macdonald Campus

Well-built muscles underlie athletic performance in birds

Published: 15 January 2021

Muscle structure and body size predict the athletic performance of Olympic athletes, such as sprinters. The same, it appears, is true of wild seabirds that can commute hundreds of kilometres a day...

Bat-winged dinosaurs that could glide

Published: 22 October 2020

Despite having bat-like wings, two small dinosaurs, Yi and Ambopteryx, struggled to fly, only managing to glide clumsily between the trees where they lived, according to a new study led by an...

CTV NEWS | Some dinosaurs were flying before there were birds, new research suggests

Published: 13 August 2020

Biologists now have a better idea of the origin of birds and the evolution of flight, two iconic events in the history of life on earth, thanks to work by a group of international scientists...

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