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Animals

Christmas Bird Count results a hoot with naturalist George Sirk

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The results are finally in from the annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) held on Cortes Island on Jan. 5.

Despite the unseasonably cold weather, 29 people noted observations in the field or at their home bird feeder, collectively recording 2,963 individuals of 70 various species. Island resident George Sirk, whose naturalist-guide work has taken him Papua New Guinea to Greenland, said these numbers are right on the mark with the 21-year average.

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Animals

The 2021 Christmas Bird Count on Cortes Island

The final numbers for Cortes Island’s Christmas Bird Count, which took place on January 5th, 2022, are in.  

One of the key organizers, George Sirk, described his personal high point as watching the birds at Christian Gronau and Aileen Douglas’ bird feeder. 

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Animals

Bird enthusiasts get ready for the 2021 Christmas Bird Count

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The annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) will take place on Cortes on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, and will once again be an individual or family activity due to pandemic-related precautions.

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Forests

All about moss: a closer look through an ecologist’s eyes

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The Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society is hosting Moss Talk on Dec.12 at Manson’s Hall.

This is a sister event to the Moss Walk, which took place in Kw’as Park on Nov. 13. The presenter for both events is Dan Tucker, an ecologist with a healthy self-admitted obsession with bryophytes, which are a group of plants composed of mosses, hornworts and liverworts. He’s also well-versed in lichens, which are a symbiotic partnership between a fungi and an alga.

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Arts

The Mystery Mountain Project comes to Cortes Island

On Sunday November 7, Bryan Thompson and Susanna Oreskovic will be bringing The Mystery Mountain Project to Mansons Hall on Cortes Island.

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