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Nature Alberta Magazine Spring 2009 VOLUME 39 | NUMBER 1 | SPRING 2009 SUGGESTED RETAIL: $6.50 CDN Nature Alberta A L B E R T A ’ S N A T U R A L H I S T O R Y R E V I E W BATS IN FLIGHT USING ECHOLOCATION, CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT: MALE SILVER-HAIRED BAT; SILVER-HAIRED BAT; FEMALE HOARY BAT; WESTERN SMALL-FOOTED BAT DRINKING © MERLIN D. TUTTLE, BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL. WWW.BATCON.ORG feature article Behold Alberta’s Bats FEDERATION OF ALBERTA NATURALISTS COMMON DANDELION, THE MOST COMMONLY RE- PORTED EXOTIC SPECIES ON THE MAY 2008 SPRING FLOWER COUNT (SEE PG 19) SUZANNE VISSER PRAIRIE CROCUS (ANEMONE PATENS) AT VERMILION. BONNIE MULLIN PRAIRIE CROCUS (ANEMONE PATENS) IN THE SOUTHEAST. HANS MUELLER Nature Alberta: SPRING 2009 1 The Federation of Alberta Naturalists is composed of natural history clubs Celebrating our natural heritage from across the province. The aims of the Federation are: (a) To encourage among all Albertans, by all means possible, an increase in their knowledge of natural history and understanding of ecological processes; (b) To promote an increase in the exchange of information and views among natural history clubs and societies in Alberta; (c) To foster and assist in the formation of additional natural history clubs Contents and societies in Alberta; NATURE ALBERTA VOLUME 39, NUMBER 1, SPRING 2009 (d) To promote the establishment of natural areas and nature reserves, to conserve and protect species, communities or other features of interest; Editor’s Page BY DENNIS BARESCO ....................................................................2 (e) To organize, or coordinate symposia, conferences, fi eld meetings, nature camps, research and other activities whether of a similar or Letters to the Editor ...............................................................................4 dissimilar nature; Alberta Issues in Brief .............................................................................5 (f) To provide the naturalists of Alberta with a forum in which questions relating to the conservation of the natural environment may be Watch For – Wing-tagged Turkey Vultures in Alberta BY WAYNE NELSON .........7 discussed, so that united positions can be developed on them, and to provide the means of translating these positions into appropriate actions. Book Review: Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson ................9 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Close to Home: Nature Photography in Alberta BY JOHN WARDEN ...............10 PRESIDENT: Dennis Baresco VICE PRESIDENT: Scott Jubinville Book Review: Canadian Rockies Geology Road Tours: SECRETARY: Don Stiles The complete roadside guide ...............................................................12 TREASURER: Don Gordon PAST PRESIDENT: Sandra Foss In Memoriam .......................................................................................13 APPOINTED DIRECTORS: Dennis Baresco, Dawn Dickinson, Sandra Foss, Jim Gendron, Branimir Gjetvaj, Don Gordon, Ted Hindmarch, Don Stiles Focus on the Foothills BY CHUCK PRIESTLEY .................................................14 ELECTED DIRECTORS: Mary Ann Johnson (ANPC); Claudia Cameron, (BLN); Wildlife! Starring…“The American Dipper” BY SANDRA C. HAWKINS ..............16 Scott Jubinville (CFNS); Lu Carbyn, (ENC); Grant Henry (FMFNS); Marty Drut, (GN); Ted Johnson (LLBBS); Lloyd Bennett (LNS); Margot Hervieux Wings of Spring: the Spring Bird Count 2008 Summary BY JUDY BOYD .....18 (PPN); Tony Blake (RDRN); Iris Davies (VRNS); STAFF: Philip Penner (Exec. Dir.); Christine Brown; Vid Bijelic; Kim Dacyk Blooms of Spring: the May “Plants in Flower” Species Count 2008 Summary BY SUZANNE VISSER ..............................................................19 CORPORATE MEMBER CLUBS Alberta Native Plant Council, Box 52099, Garneau P.O. Edmonton, AB Behold Alberta’s Bats BY CHUCK PRIESTLEY, MARGO PYBUS AND DAVE HOBSON ..............22 T6G 2T5 Buffalo Lake Naturalists, Box 1802, Stettler, AB T0C 2L0 First Hand: A Special Bird Feeder Visitor! ..............................................31 Nature Calgary, Box 981, Calgary, AB T2P 2K4 Edmonton Nature Club, Box 1111, Edmonton, AB T5J 2M1 Mini-Book Review: Tar Sands: Fort McMurray Field Naturalists Society, 152 Cote Bay, Fort McMurray, AB Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent ...............................................31 T9H 4R9 Grasslands Naturalists, Box 2491, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 8G8 Up Close Naturally: Aerial Plankton BY MARGOT HERVIEUX............................32 Lac La Biche Birding Society, Box 1270, Lac La Biche, AB T0A 2C0 Extreme Fighting Arrives in Alberta: The Spring 2008 Lethbridge Naturalists Society, Box 1691, Lethbridge, AB T1J 4K4 Peace Parkland Naturalists, Box 1451, Grande Prairie, AB T8V 4Z2 Peregrine Falcon Migration! BY GEOFF HOLROYD AND HELEN TREFRY ......................33 Red Deer River Naturalists, Box 785, Red Deer, AB T4N 5H2 Waterton Lakes National Park: Where the Mountains Vermilion River Naturalists, 5707 - 47 Avenue, Vermilion, AB T9X 1K5 Meet the Prairie BY SANDRA HAWKINS ............................................................38 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS: Alberta Lake Management Society Friends of Jasper National Park Celestial Happenings BY JOHN MCFAUL ........................................................41 Alberta Lepidopterists’ Guild Grant MacEwan Mountain Club Alberta Naturalization Network Society Heritage Tree Foundation of Canada It’s Spring! BY DENNIS BARESCO .....................................................................42 Alberta Stewardship Network J.J. Collett Natural Area Foundation Beaverhill Bird Observatory Lee Nature Sanctuary Society FAN Club Page ......................................................................................43 Beaver River Naturalist Club Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory Big Lake Environmental Support Society Purple Martin Conservancy PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE FEDERATION OF ALBERTA NATURALISTS, BowKan Birders Riverlot 56 Naturalists Area Society Calgary Bird Banding Society Stewards of Alberta’s Protected Areas 11759 GROAT ROAD, EDMONTON, AB T5M 3K6 Cochrane Environmental Action Association PHONE.780.427.8124 FAX.780.422.2663 Committee Sturgeon River Watershed Initiative [email protected] Crooked Creek Conservancy Society Society Crowsnest Conservation Society The Wagner Natural Area Society SUBSCRIPTION $30.00 PER YEAR; $55 FOR TWO YEARS Edmonton Naturalization Group Weaselhead/Glenmore Park Ellis Bird Farm Preservation Society EDITOR.DENNIS BARESCO Foothills Land Trust Wizard Lake Watershed and Lake Fort Saskatchewan Naturalists Society Stewardship Assoc. [email protected] Friends of Blackfoot Society Wood Buffalo Bird Club CIRCULATION.TED HINDMARCH LAYOUT.BROKEN ARROW SOLUTIONS INC. We acknowledge the fi nancial support of the Government of PRINTING.PERCY PAGE CENTRE.ISSN 0318-5440 Canada through the Publication Assistance Program. THANKS TO ALL WHO ASSISTED IN PRODUCING THIS ISSUE: ELAINE CATHCART, SANDRA FOSS, MARILYN ROSS, VAL SCHOLEFIELD, CANADA POST AGREEMENT NO. 40015475 JUNE VERMEULEN. PUBLICATION MAIL REGISTRATION NO. 09839 MANY THANKS TO THIS ISSUE’S CONTRIBUTORS EDITORIAL DISCLAIMER WANT TO SUBMIT ARTICLES NATURE ALBERTA DEADLINES ARE: The opinions expressed by the authors in this publication do not necessarily refl ect those of the editor and the Federation of Alberta OR PHOTOS? SPRING ISSUE.FEBRUARY 14 Naturalists. The editor reserves the right to edit, reject or withdraw GUIDELINES ARE AVAILABLE SUMMER ISSUE.MAY 15 articles submitted. While due care will be taken of all manuscripts, photos ON THE FAN WEBSITE: FALL ISSUE.AUGUST 15 or artwork submitted, FAN cannot be held responsible for any loss or WWW.FANWEB.CA WINTER ISSUE.NOVEMBER 15 damage to such articles. 2 NatureAlberta Editor’s Page BY DENNIS BARESCO INSIDE NATURE ALBERTA “Alberta’s spectacular natural HARD TIMES When it comes to wildlife features, and best kept secrets”: Naturalists can be forgiven if they watching, awareness, Kakwa Falls (pg 14). Sandra get a tad discouraged when reading, information and appreciation, Hawkins takes us to one of watching or listening to the news. Hard bats tend to be ignored. The her favourite places: Waterton times for nature abound. It doesn’t Spring Feature Story, “Behold National Park (pg 38) and also help that the federal government is Alberta’s Bats” (starting pg 22), gives us a detailed look at one unscrupulously and unconscionably may not move you to love of the park’s avian residents, the using the economic situation as a these amazing mammals, but American Dipper (pg 16). false cover to gut environmental it will certainly inform you – Those are but a few of the many assessment, eliminate research and and maybe motivate some bat and varied articles and features throw up roadblocks to public input, watching. Bats defi nitely need in this issue. I hope you are as not surprisingly in ways that mirror the and – given their huge benefi ts delighted in reading it as I was tactics and motives of George Bush’s to mankind – overwhelmingly in preparing it. Plus, you can government. Small wonder Canada deserve our support. win a book (see page 3). has become, in effect, the developed world’s most anti-environmental nation. Geoff Holroyd and Helen Trefry As Gerald Butts, president and CEO of update us on the Peregrine SPRING World Wildlife Fund Canada, said in Falcon migration, this time Spring means it’s almost time for the Toronto Star (Feb 27, 2009): “From the Spring 2008 fl ight (pg 33). fresh – really fresh! – vegetables hewers of wood and drawers of water These reports, tracking the from gardens and Farmers’
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