BPBO Cottage Stewardship Program now taking bookings!
Review from the Grebe Lodge guestbook:
“What a special place! We enjoyed the wildness and calm. The beaver pair working in Wingfield Basin was a highlight. We also saw foxes, hares, cranes, muskrats and so, so many birds. Walking at dusk is a must! Thank you for sharing this place with us. We will be back.”
The BPBO Cottage Stewardship Program allows you to stay at Cabot Head Research Station located in Cabot Head Provincial Nature Reserve. It is a pristine location with wonderful opportunities for exploration, birding, botanizing, and just relaxing.
Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory
The Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory (BPBO) is a non-profit, member-based charitable organization with a mission to promote and foster the study, appreciation and conservation of birds and their habitats in the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula region of Ontario, Canada.
The best way to get a quick feel for BPBO and the activities at the Cabot Head Research Station is to watch this 2022 video tour from TVO.
PLEASE NOTE: The station is closed to the public due to the Cabot Head Road closure.
How You Can Support Us
Adopt-A-Bird
Another way you can support BPBO’s work!
If you have a favourite North American bird, how about adopting it?
Your bird will still live wild and free, but you’ll know you’re supporting BPBO.
Adoption fees help us with monitoring, research and education projects.
BPBO’s Top 20 Birds
Fun facts from our first 20 years
In our first 20 years of migration monitoring (2002 to 2021), nearly 63,000 birds of 123 species were banded.
The top 20 birds shared here account for 80% of all birds banded.
The Golden-crowned Kinglet is by far the most frequently caught and banded bird. Nearly 10,000 Golden-crowned Kinglets were banded in our first 20 years. That’s 15% of the total number of all birds banded!
Volunteer for Migration Monitoring
The Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory invites applications from prospective volunteers who are interested in assisting in migration monitoring activities at the Cabot Head Research Station.
This is a wonderful opportunity to help with capturing the birds in mist nets for banding and helping with recording data.
Applications from persons with varied skill levels and experience are encouraged.
ON THE BLOG
Read seasonal updates from the Station Scientist and other BPBO updates.
Land Acknowledgement
The Directors of the Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory acknowledge the traditional territory of the Anishinabek Nation: the People of the Three Fires known as Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi Nations. We give thanks also to the Saugeen First Nation and the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, collectively known as the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON), the traditional keepers of this land. As members and Directors of the Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory, we accept our responsibility to be good stewards of this land, in this time and into the future.