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Gregor Beck

@ggbeck

Wildlife biologist and conservation professional with a passion for birds, reptiles, nature, and outdoor pursuits 🇨🇦 🦉🦦🐢🐦🐍🐈🦅🛶🚶‍♂️🚶👣

 Turkey Point, Ontario, Canada
Joined February 2010
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Prairie #Warbler: a beautiful and active #bird of semi-open habitat, with a cheerful ascending zee-zee-zee-zee-zee song. Generally rare in Ontario, Canada, they are locally 'common' breeders in eastern #GeorgianBay and southern Shield habitats. Anyone know what bug it's eating?
A brightly-plumaged Prairie Warbler with a yellow breast and face, streaked in black. It is sitting in a small shrub of bright greens from June 2024.

ALT A brightly-plumaged Prairie Warbler with a yellow breast and face, streaked in black. It is sitting in a small shrub of bright greens from June 2024.

Prairie Warbler sits on a dead branch of a White Pine tree. It has its tail uplifted and shows with a bit of white showing in outer tail feathers. Georgian Bay June 2024.

ALT Prairie Warbler sits on a dead branch of a White Pine tree. It has its tail uplifted and shows with a bit of white showing in outer tail feathers. Georgian Bay June 2024.

Prairie Warbler facing away from camera in low shrub. It shows a bit of brown streaking on its back.

ALT Prairie Warbler facing away from camera in low shrub. It shows a bit of brown streaking on its back.

Earlier photo (2013) of brightly-coloured Prairie Warbler. Bright yellow underparts and streaking clearly visible. It is sitting on a small White Pine branch and has a small bug in its beak.

ALT Earlier photo (2013) of brightly-coloured Prairie Warbler. Bright yellow underparts and streaking clearly visible. It is sitting on a small White Pine branch and has a small bug in its beak.

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A sunset serenade from the Sandhill Cranes over Turkey Point Marsh. #NorfolkCounty #LongPoint #Nature
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Quite an incredible marine mammal interaction photo bc.ctvnews.ca/never-seen-any…
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Please be tick aware. Serious diseases are spreading. cbc.ca/news/health/tick-spre…
She died from a tick-spread illness most Canadians have never heard of. Why more people could be at...

She died from a tick-spread illness most Canadians have never heard of. Why more people could be at...

For years, medical experts have warned a rising number of Canadians are being exposed to ticks carrying an array of dangerous pathogens. Lyme disease is the most familiar, but concerns about anapla...

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Tonight, this Green #Frog is feeling a bit blue....
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Gregor Beck (@ggbeck) profile pictureGregor Beck@ggbeck3 Jul 2024
Eye to eye with a #frog. They're just such amazing animals! #nature #amphibians #NorfolkCounty
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Eye to eye with a #frog. They're just such amazing animals! #nature #amphibians #NorfolkCounty
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With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.
Image from Kiefer Sutherland (@RealKiefer)
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Beautiful, charismatic, and inquisitive seem to epitomize the Northern Watersnake. Wonderful Wednesday #Wildlife. #GeorgianBay #snakes!
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Image from Gregor Beck (@ggbeck)
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Getting the lowdown on a serpentine pal.
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We now have Piping Plover chicks on the beach at both @WasagaBeachPP and @PresquilePP! These chicks are extremely vulnerable at this young age and require support from everyone visiting their breeding beaches.
Image from Ontario Piping Plover Conservation Program (@ontarioplovers)
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Congratulations @WildlifeHCanada. I love these stamps! They continue to provide needed support to Great Lakes wetland research & conservation programs including @BirdsCanada's Marsh Monitoring Program.(Thank you, btw) Buy this year's stamps at rousseaucollections.com/en/p… – at Norfolk County, Ontario
Gregor Beck (@ggbeck) profile pictureGregor Beck@ggbeck19 Jun 2024
Congratulations to Wildlife Habitat Canada on the occasion of their 40th anniversary! Thank you for four great decades of conservation. Best wishes and all the best for many more years of collaboration. Enjoy the video panorama with 40 years of duck stamp artwork.
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Image from Gregor Beck (@ggbeck)
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Congratulations to Wildlife Habitat Canada on the occasion of their 40th anniversary! Thank you for four great decades of conservation. Best wishes and all the best for many more years of collaboration. Enjoy the video panorama with 40 years of duck stamp artwork.
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Image from Gregor Beck (@ggbeck)
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Driftwood may not look like much, but it is important habitat for many creatures, such as small reptiles and amphibians, and small mammals! If you come across driftwood during your visit to the park, please leave it as you found it, to keep animal homes and shelters intact.
Image from Point Pelee National Park, Parks Canada (@PointPeleeNP)
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#NewProfilePic
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Will be presenting at the Simcoe Library tomorrow on gardening with native plants & avoiding species that can become invasive in our surrounding natural habitats. Doors open 11:30AM, talk starts at 12 Noon. A fundraiser for the Norfolk Library System. #Norfolk #Gardening #Nature
Image from Kevin Kavanagh (@scgardens)
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There should be avian prizes for song volume adjusted for bird size. If that were the case, #Wrens and R-c Kinglets would surely be among the winners! I love the loud, tinkling, boisterous song of tiny Winter Wrens emanating from shady #Hemlock ravines. #NorfolkCounty #LongPoint
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Prepping for my slow birding walk next Saturday (June 1). The adult kids came along to help. birdscanada.org/event/folk-b…
Image from Kathy Jones (she/her) (@Volunteer4Birds)
Image from Kathy Jones (she/her) (@Volunteer4Birds)
Image from Kathy Jones (she/her) (@Volunteer4Birds)
Image from Kathy Jones (she/her) (@Volunteer4Birds)
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It's been interesting to watch & photograph Northern Flickers excavate a nesting cavity. Some photos capture the moment they come to the cavity opening with a beak full of wood chips & sawdust, with eyes closed (makes sense). Other images show them shaking wood from their beaks
A beige-coloured Northern Flicker, with black chest band, sticks its head out of a nest cavity in a large dead tree trunk.

ALT A beige-coloured Northern Flicker, with black chest band, sticks its head out of a nest cavity in a large dead tree trunk.

Northern Flicker emerges from nest cavity with its eye closed and a beak of saw dust and wood chips.

ALT Northern Flicker emerges from nest cavity with its eye closed and a beak of saw dust and wood chips.

Northern Flicker sticks its head out of nest cavity and shakes off a beakful of wood chips and saw dust. Wood chips circled in red.

ALT Northern Flicker sticks its head out of nest cavity and shakes off a beakful of wood chips and saw dust. Wood chips circled in red.

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Beautiful white fungi cling to a tree trunk against the verdant greens of a #Carolinian #forest in spring. The subtle back-lighting seems to add to the ecological intimacy - and to the contrasts implicit with #fungi and the new growth. #nature #hiking #NorfolkCounty
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Last minute #Toronto #birding opportunity. Swift Night Out (downtown). Great to see this video of mine from a few years ago. Happy, birdy memories. I remember vividly some of the fun conversations and people from that night!
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