Nature Moncton Nature News: January 23 2024

NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS

January 23, 2024

Nature Moncton members as well as any naturalist in New Brunswick or beyond are invited to share their photos and descriptions of recent nature sightings to build a fresh (almost) daily edition of Nature News

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**The newly formed Nature Moncton Outdoors Committee has organized its first activity of the year which will be a workshop on cell phone apps for naturalists to be held this coming Saturday, Jan 27. It is short notice, but the new committee wants to get activities up and running with lots more to follow.

The write-up is at the end of this edition and upfront on Friday.

**Aldo Dorio photographed an immature Northern Shrike on Monday in Neguac.

The barring on the chest and the brown tones in the plumage suggest it to be immature.

**Rheal Vienneau corrects an error in yesterday’s edition of Nature News. He points out that the photo of the Polyphemus Moth larval cocoon is actually the look-alike Cecropia Moth larval cocoon. It is corrected in yesterday’s edition and the photo is reattached today.

**Late last year, a new Nature Moncton committee was formed and named the CONSERVATION ACTION committee. The committee members include Jessica Belanger-Mainville, Christopher Buschhaus, Jeff Melvin, and Cathy Simon (chair). This committee will strive to provide Nature Moncton members with opportunities to TAKE ACTION FOR NATURE.

We think Nature Moncton should take action for nature because...

we love nature;
the natural world is important to our wellbeing;
the natural world is in danger; and
big or small, we can all make a difference!

In the next few days, please watch for announcements on upcoming workshops, outings, and projects in which you can get involved. Thank you for the support of the executive and partnerships with the Outings and Presentations committees.

**Nature Moncton Workshop

Cell Phone Nature Apps

Nature Moncton will present its first training session of the year

on Saturday, January 27, 2024, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm

Tankville School, 1979 Elmwood Drive, Moncton

This workshop will provide an opportunity to learn four apps that have been found useful to many of our members. These will be presented by members that have experience with the app. There will be time for hands-on learning. If you wish to follow along on an app, please load it before the session.

Apps:

Google Lens, a product of Google, presented by Fred Richards. This is an identification app using your cell camera or photos.

eBird, an app for sharing your observations to a database. This will be presented by Cathy Simon

iNaturalist, for sharing your observations to scientific databases, and one that will also help with IDs. Presented by Gordon Rattray

PictureThis, an app for field ID of plants. Presenter to be named later.

If time, we will look at Merlin, a bird ID app from Cornell University, especially useful for song IDs.

As always, everyone is welcome, Nature Moncton member or not.

Nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com

Nelson Poirier

Nature Moncton