Parks Canada is listening to bank swallows at night to help boost the birds’ population [Video]

A tiny bird species that nests in the banks along the beaches of P.E.I. National Park has seen its numbers decline in recent years. Hailey Paynter, an ecologist with Parks Canada, talks about how staff are keeping an eye on the population of bank swallows, the conservation efforts being made, and what could be behind the declining nest numbers.

Parks Canada is launching a new project this fall to listen for a species of tiny birds that make their home in the red cliffs of Prince Edward Island National Park.

Hailey Paynter, an ecologist at Parks Canada, says the agency will use autonomous recording units (ARUs) to determine if bank swallows are roosting in particular wetlands in the park.

“This is a piece of equipment that essentially has a microphone on it and you set it up to record at specific times and it captures bird calls, which then can …

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