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.
Continue reading The 2021 Christmas Bird Count on Cortes IslandHow our local government works – Part 1 of 5 from the Feb 5 SRD Board Meeting
The proposed budget for 2022 was one of the principle topics at the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) Board Meeting on Wednesday, February 9th. Part of this process involved looking into the finances for 2021. So in the first of a five part series arising from that meeting, Cortes Currents is looking into how the SRD is spending the portion of our tax dollars under their control.
Continue reading Where did Cortes Island’s property tax dollars go in 2021?
Dr. Kelsey Gil is a postdoctoral researcher at UBC’s department of zoology and the lead author of a paper published in Current Biology that literally peaks down the throat of a lunge whale.
Lunge feeding whales (humpbacks, blue whales and fin whales etc) open their mouths as they accelerate towards their prey.
Continue reading Looking down the throat of a Humpback WhaleCKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
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.
Continue reading Bird enthusiasts get ready for the 2021 Christmas Bird CountCKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
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.
Continue reading All about moss: a closer look through an ecologist’s eyes
