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**A
heads-up on the Nature Moncton February monthly meeting, to take place
virtually
this coming Tuesday evening at 7:00. Mike Holland will visit virtually and
give
a presentation on Protected Natural Areas in New Brunswick. The write-up is
attached
below. The link to join the meeting is:
https://meet.google.com/nbg-baff-ioc
NATURE MONCTON FEBRUARY
MEETING
February 16, 2021 at 7:00 PM
VIRTUAL MEETING
Presenter: Mike Holland, Minister
of Natural Resources and Energy Development
“Protected Areas of New Brunswick”
In October 2019, the government of NB announced it would more than double the
amount of conserved land in the province in the next 14 months bringing the
total up to 10%. That would translate into the creation of a good number of new
Protected Natural Areas (PNA) in which conservation is the focus. The events of
2020 delayed the project a bit, as well as many other things, but the province
is still on track to fulfill this commitment and has put forward a consultation
process to help it along. For naturalists this should be of great interest and
that is why we thought it would be good to have someone come and give us a talk
on the subject. And who better to do that than Mike Holland the minister of the
Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Minister Holland is a
fervent outdoorsman himself and it should be of great interest to all to hear
how he sees the future of conservation in our beautiful province.
This presentation will be virtual with anyone anywhere welcome to join at
https://meet.google.com/nbg-baff-ioc
**Yesterday’s
photos that Brian Stone took at Mapleton Park of the unexpected
hybrid-plumaged
duck brought some excellent comments from Roger Burrows
and
Ron Arsenault that we can all learn from. Roger commented this duck is not
showing
any BLACK DUCK [Canard noir] genes in its phenotype. Ron comments it
looks
more like an intersex (which may be a new word to some, as it was to me)
than
a BLACK x MALLARD hybrid [Canard noir x Canard colvert]. Ron forwards an
excellent
internet site explaining about hybrids and intersex birds that shows a
photo
very similar to Brian’s. The photo is re-attached today, as a Mallard Duck
intersex
bird. In simple terms, this bird carries a blend of female and male genes,
and
thus has both male and female anatomical parts. The site Ron pointed out is
attached
below.
http://birdhybrids.blogspot.com/2015/01/intersex-birds-and-their-confusion-with.html
Thank
you, Ron and Roger, for I suspect giving many of us
something
to learn and recognize in the future, but I assume this is quite an
uncommon
occurrence.
**Roger
LeBlanc sends a few special photos that Alain Clavette and Paul Minaar
got on Moncton Christmas Bird Count day,
December 19, 2020, or in Count Week.
Roger
has prepared an excellent summary of the day’s tally, and many comments
as
to how it compares with other years, and a list of all species tallied. Roger’s
complete
summary can be reviewed at the link below:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gfk1kry7rbb392r/Nature%20Moncton%20%20full%20CBC%20report%202020.doc?dl=0
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Nature
Moncton
