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June 2 - 6, 2025

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Ecopa Environmental's fast-paced wildlife survey field methods course provides participants with practical field training in various wildlife and habitat inventory and assessment techniques. Participants will gain hands-on experience surveying amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The course focuses on many of the requisite studies for an Environmental Impact Study in south and central Ontario, emphasizing terrestrial and wetland species and habitats. Participants will develop skills to identify candidate and confirmed Significant Wildlife Habitats, practice skills to monitor selected Species at Risk, and receive Bear-Aware training.

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Program Outline

 

​Monday

Morning

• Introduction to the course

• Trail camera field exercise

Afternoon

• Marsh monitoring protocol 

Evening

• Chimney Swift monitoring field exercise

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​Tuesday

Morning

• Avian marsh monitoring field exercise

Afternoon 

• Introduction to monitoring with eDNA

• Avian and bat bioacoustics monitoring

Evening 

• Bioacoustics bat monitoring and marsh monitoring of amphibians field exercises

 

Wednesday 

Morning

• Learning to identify bird songs and calls, forest bird monitoring protocol 

• Forest bird monitoring field exercise

Afternoon

• Woodland and Alvar field trip

• Bat habitat assessment field exercise

Evening 

• Whip-poor-will survey 

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Thursday

Morning

• Significant Wildlife Habitat

• Wildlife sign field exercise

Afternoon

• Nest surveys, SAR visual encounter survey field exercise

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Friday

Morning

• Bear Aware Training

Afternoon

• Retrieve and review trail camera and bioacoustics data

• Awarding of certificates

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