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This is where you will find training courses and learning materials that are developed for Birds Canada citizen science or volunteer programs.

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Ontario Piping Plover Volunteer Training

Ontario Piping Plovers need your help! Please take this training if you are already a volunteer and would like a refresher (we bet you'll learn something new!), or if you are planning to become a new volunteer.

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SwiftWatch Volunteer Training

SwiftWatch Volunteer Training is designed for new or existing volunteers of the SwiftWatch program in Ontario or the Maritimes.

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A Red-breasted Nuthatch leans out from the bottom of a feeder, it's fully belly is exposed and reddish. The background has fall orange colours.

Red-breasted Nuthatch by Nikki Linfield

April 3, 2025

New courses added: Identifying Birds in Canada

A male American Goldfinch with bright yellow and bold black plumage perches on a tree, looking over it's shoulder at the camera. Green forest background.

American Goldfinch by Geoff McDonell

March 27, 2024

New course added: Birding for Beginners

A Grasshopper Sparrow is perched on a spruce, with a green forest background. It's bill is open, singing.

Grasshopper Sparrow by Peter Hawrylyshyn

March 27, 2023

New course added: Learn by Listening: About Birds

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