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June 10 - 14, 2024

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Ecopa Environmental's fast-paced wildlife survey field methods course provides participants with practical field training in a variety of wildlife and habitat inventory and assessment techniques. Participants will gain hands-on experience surveying amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The course focuses on many of the requisite studies for an Environmental Impact Study in south and central Ontario, with emphasis on terrestrial and wetland species and habitats. Participants will develop skills to identify candidate and confirmed Significant Wildlife Habitat, practice skills to monitor selected Species at Risk, and will receive Bear Aware training.

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Program Outline

 

​Monday

Morning

• Travel and registration

• Forest plants and animals ID in the field

Afternoon

• Introduction to the course; wildlife survey techniques and trail camera field exercise

Evening

• Chimney Swift monitoring field exercise

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​Tuesday

Morning

• Marsh monitoring protocol 

• Avian marsh monitoring field exercise

Afternoon 

• Introduction monitoring with eDNA

• Avian and bat bioacoustics monitoring

Evening 

• Bioacoustics bat monitoring and marsh monitoring of amphibians field exercises

 

Wednesday 

Morning

• Learning to identify bird songs and calls, forest bird monitoring protocol 

• Forest bird monitoring field exercise

Afternoon

• Woodland and Alvar field trip

Evening 

• Whip-poor-will Survey 

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Thursday

Morning

• Bat habitat assessment field exercise 

• Wildlife sign field exercise

Afternoon

• Nest surveys, SAR visual encounter survey field exercise

• Retrieve and review trail camera and bioacoustics data

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Friday

Morning

• Significant Wildlife Habitat

• Bird Banding 

     Afternoon

• Bear Aware training

•  Awarding of certificates​

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