birds

A Canada goose smoking and drinking with human friends

Environment / March/April 2023

How to Make Peace with Canada Geese

February 6, 2023February 8, 2023 - by Tom Jokinen

We’ve been at war with the angry birds for centuries. Are they an invasive species, or are we?

Image of a peafowl family tree set against a blue sky and clouds.

July/August 2022 / Society

Ruffled Feathers: How Feral Peacocks Divided a Small Town

July 4, 2022July 4, 2022 - by Lyndsie Bourgon

The birds were beloved. But they also chased garbage trucks, scratched cars, and feasted on vegetable patches

Illustration of a pigeon flying over farmland.

December 2021 / Science

The Pigeon Puzzle: How Do They Figure Out Their Impossibly Long Routes Home?

November 19, 2021January 2, 2022 - by Trevor Popoff

You might consider them flying rats, but their odysseys stump scientists

Environment

The Decade in Environment

December 19, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From natural disasters and extreme weather to the last tree left standing in a forest, these are the environment conversations that helped define Canada

Environment / January/February 2018

Our Obsession with Glass Is Killing Birds

December 15, 2017July 4, 2022 - by Moira Farr

We’ve designed our buildings with shiny, transparent, or mirrored surfaces that hundreds crash into day after day

Society

Do We Really Need a National Bird?

September 27, 2016July 4, 2022 - by Harry Wilson

The controversy over Canada’s first avian symbol rages on

April 2016

A Roost of One’s Own

March 16, 2016July 16, 2020 - by Calum Marsh

Gentrification and the legal rights of pigeons

Poetry / September 2015

Yield

August 20, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Michael Crummey

My wife is in the field, scouting a proposed route for transmission towers, sent ahead of the engineers through bird habitat earmarked to funnel Labrador’s bridled electrical yield across bog …