counting chickadees & reimagining the map of calgary

On the first day of each month, a small group of Calgarians gathers in the parking lot of Stanley Park to embark on the Elbow River Bird Survey. The meeting time varies with the season, as this walk usually starts an hour after sunrise. Gus Yaki and his wife, Aileen Pelzer, began this monthly ritual in July 1993 when they walked from Stanley Park, near their home, to the Glenmore Dam and realized a monthly survey of the birds along this route would offer valuable data on the changes in species from season to season and year to year.

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