Annual Dinner - November 8, 2025

Harvester Feniseca tarquinius (C.K. Chevalier) By Olivia Galloway eButterfly documents the presence or absence of species as well as abundance through checklist data. A web interface engages participants in submitting their observations through interactive questions and answers. eButterfly encourages users to participate repeatedly by providing tools to maintain their personal observations and photo records as well as providing tools to enable them to visualize data with interactive maps, graphs, and bar charts. All these features [...]

By Bob Curry (Introduction by Jeremy Hatt) "As we close the chapter on another Festival of Birds at Point Pelee National Park, what better time to reflect on the changes that have occurred over the years at Point Pelee, both with the birds and the people who watch them. Bob Curry is a lifelong Ontario birder who has been visiting Point Pelee since 1958 and currently has the highest species list of any birder in [...]

Attendees gather at Northwest Beach pavilion – photo by Diane Naluzny By Jeremy Hatt Birding With Pride at Point Pelee National Park continues to be one of the highest-attended annual events offered by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO), and ECFNC was proud to be there to support again this spring. Kicking off the Festival of Birds on the first Saturday of May, the event was well-attended by well over 100 people celebrating the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community. [...]

By Jeremy Hatt (Land Acknowledgment by Julie Read) At the beginning of every Birding With Pride at Point Pelee, it’s important that we start the event with a Land Acknowledgment. This year, Julie Read, hike leader and volunteer at Birding With Pride, wrote a Land Acknowledgment that I would like to share. It includes a brief history of Caldwell First Nation in Essex County and ways to support and build relationships. “I am deeply thankful [...]

By: Jeremy Hatt The Butterfly Committee has a few exciting announcements to share as we approach spring. The first is that the Committee now has a logo thanks to the artistry of Janice Boussey. The Committee is represented by the Pearl Crescent, a common butterfly of Essex County that can be found from April to October but is most abundant in late July to early August and mid-September. This variable pollinator of meadows and roadsides [...]