Conference Trips

The Owl Foundation: Well known across the continent for her work with owls, Kay McKeever of The Owl Foundation is inviting IWRC conference attendees for a visit to her centre. Located only an hour from Toronto, this field trip will offer an exciting opportunity to view this renowned expert's specialized caging and rehabilitation techniques, to learn about captive breeding of non-releasable owls, and to find out how little-known information about owl behaviour is being researched. Formally established in 1975, The Owl Foundation houses over 100 permanent residents and handles approximately 100 new admissions each year.
http://theowlfoundation.ca

Tuesday, November 8
8:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Tour Fee: $27 US

The Toronto Zoo: Come out for a behind-the-scenes tour of The Toronto Zoo, one of the world's largest zoological parks. The Zoo is set in the beautiful Rouge Valley in East Toronto - one of the world's largest urban natural environment parks. Meet Dr. Graham Crawshaw, the zoo's head veterinarian, and tour the Zoo's health unit, quarantine areas, animal food kitchen, and veterinary hospital. You will learn about The Toronto Zoo's endangered species and education programs, and will have a chance to enjoy a lunch in the lovely park environment. 710 acres in size, the Toronto Zoo houses over 5,000 animals representing more than 460 different species.
http://www.torontozoo.com

Humber Bay Bird-watching and visit to the Royal Ontario Museum: Enjoy a morning of waterfowl watching on Toronto's beautiful Humber Bay, the setting for a variety of aquatic and terrestrial habitat restoration projects initiated by Toronto's environmental community. Set on the Lake Ontario waterfront - on one of the continent's major migratory pathways - Humber Bay is an excellent site for observing migratory bird species on their travels. Mark Peck, an ornithology expert from the Royal Ontario Museum (the ROM), will be leading this field trip. From Humber Bay, you will move on to a tour of the Museum's bird collections, where Mark will share his knowledge on some of the research that Museum specialists are carrying out in an effort to add to avian science. The ROM, Canada's largest museum, has holdings of five million objects, many of which are of important scientific value.
http://www.rom.on.ca/index.php