The Whistler Naturalists have been writing NatureSpeak articles in our local weekly paper The Pique Newsmagazine since 1999. These articles cover a wide range of natural history subjects and are available to be viewed here.
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- Fauna
- Amphibians & Reptiles
- Birds – broad scope
- Whistler’s Christmas Bird Count set for Dec. 15, 2008
- AGM 2000
- Alpine birds: Climate change indicators?
- Birding beyond Whistler
- Breeding bird survey 2000
- Breeding bird survey 2003
- Breeding bird survey 2004
- Breeding bird survey 2006
- Breeding bird survey 2007
- Christmas bird count 2000
- Christmas bird count 2002
- Christmas bird count 2003 (part 1)
- Christmas bird count 2003 (part 2)
- Christmas bird count 2004
- Christmas bird count 2004 con’t
- Christmas bird count 2007
- Christmas bird counts planned across Sea to Sky – 2009
- Christmas for the birders
- Fall migration 2003
- Fall migration 2004
- Goose quills and other feathers
- Hello Whistler CBC’ers,
- Latest Sea to Sky bird count nets over 40,000
- Spring migration 2002
- Spring migration 2003
- Spring migration 2004
- Spring migration 2005
- Spring migration 2008
- Summer 2002
- Summer 2003
- Summer 2004
- Summer 2007
- Summer 2008
- Summer birds 2009
- Whistler’s birds 2002: A year in review
- Whistler’s birds 2003: a year in review
- Whistler’s birds of 2008 – A review
- Winter 2001-02
- Winter 2002-03
- Winter 2003-04
- Winter 2005-06
- Winter 2007-08
- Winter birds came out for the Olympics
- Worst weather results in low bird count numbers
- Birds – specific
- A remarkable relationship
- American Dipper
- American Robin & Varied Thrush
- Bald eagle
- Bald eagles
- Barn Swallow
- Barred Owl
- Blue grouse
- Blue-winged Teal & Cedar Waxwing
- Brown Creeper
- Bufflehead duck
- Clark’s Nutcracker
- Common merganser
- Fall and Meadowlarks?
- Great blue heron
- Green heron
- How Endangered are Local Owls?
- Hummingbirds and the anti-Atkins diet
- Jim Crow
- Magnets and migrations
- Northern flicker
- Northern Pygmy-Owl
- Olive-sided flycatcher
- Osprey
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Ruffed grouse
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Rufous isn’t just a name for dogs
- Seasonal fashion statements: Who wants to stand out in the wild?
- The Common Raven
- The Ecology of Threatened and Endangered Local Owls
- The Ultimate Tree House
- Trumpeter Swan
- Whistler doves and then some
- Willow flycatcher
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Fish
- Birkenhead River Chinook- One of a Kind
- Bull Trout in Whistler
- Fish habitat 101
- Kokanee Salmon
- Kokanee Salmon– The Life-Cycle Continues
- Rainbow Trout
- Rainbow Trout and Spring Cleaning
- Survivors
- The mating rituals of Whistler locals
- The return of the kokanee salmon
- Waiting for the Rain
- Where the fish live
- Who’s really a local in Whistler’s Lakes?
- Invertebrates
- Banana Slug – Ariolimax columbianus
- Carpenter Ants (invasion of the aliens)
- Dragonflies Forever
- Ice Worms
- Marzipan Millipede
- Mountain Pine Beetle
- Sowbugs bugs, boats, and ballast
- The Green Lacewing
- The Lackey Moth – You Know It Well, or Do You?
- The native slug of our western rainforest
- The Primitive Monster Cricket
- Mammals
- A night screamer in our midst
- A winter under water
- B.C.’s Best Climbers: Mountain Goats
- Coyote
- Coyotes Part 1
- Coyotes Part 2: A dog for all seasons
- Ermine: The problem with being long and skinny
- Facts about the snowshoe hare
- Gillian’s bobcat
- Harvey, the Snowshoe Hare
- Just slip sliding away river otters
- Local Sightings
- Long-tailed Weasel, 11”-21”
- Mogul or Marmot?
- Mountain goats, masters of the high alpine
- Muskrat love?
- Mutualism: The Douglas squirrel and west coast conifers
- Night Life on the Mountain
- Pika
- Provisional Checklist of Whistler’s Mammals
- Red Fox
- Squirrels: locals and immigrants
- The American Pika: subsistence farming at treeline
- The Beav
- The Snowshoe Hare-One Smart Hair
- To A Vole
- Vancouver Island Marmots: Back from the brink of extinction?
- Whistler’s Bat (and moth) World – Episode Two
- Whistler’s Bat World – Episode One
- Winter survival
- “Hit it with the hockey stick!”
- Flora
- Plants – broad scope
- Plants – specific
- A Berry Good Time of Year
- And violets are yellow…
- Devil’s What?
- Falsebox
- Kinnikinnick
- Luscious Lilies and Familiar Families
- Mistletoe
- Mrs. Dee’s Time-Tested Cranberry Jelly
- Orchids in the Great White North?
- Perpetual spring and the plant of many names
- Purple Loosestrife: Poster Child of Invasive Weeds
- Red-flowering Currant and Black Gooseberry
- Sea-to-Sky Fireweed
- Skunk Cabbage
- Spring Beauty
- Sundews: Tiny but Deadly
- The Dark Side of Mistletoe
- The Lupine Saga
- Western anemone
- Whistler’s hottest plant
- Why BC’s Provincial Flower Doesn’t Grow Here
- Why George W. Bush loves horsetails
- Wild Roses and Honeysuckles
- Trees
- Black Cottonwood
- Chairlift Naturalist
- East is east and west is west, and that’s why the maple leaf is red
- Five Trees to Go Around
- Oh, Christmas tree. Oh, Christmas tree…
- The Difference between Broccoli and Bristlecones
- Treeline and Global Warming
- Trees, it’s all about leaves and degrees
- Whitebark Pine Conservation Project 2005 Update
- Why evergreen?
- Winners and Losers: A Forest Shell Game
- Fungi, Lichens & Algae
- Algae
- Fungi
- Are mushrooms fungi?
- Better trampled than sampled?
- Frank: a fun guy
- Fungal Factoids
- Fungophilia
- Further Fungal Factoids
- If You Go Into The Woods Today…
- Marvelous Mushrooms
- Mushrooms everywhere but not a lot to eat
- Mysterious, magical and marvelous mushrooms
- Of cubical butt rot and other things
- Pine Mushrooms
- Something under the ground is stirring
- What about the fungus among us?
- Lichen
- Geology and Glaciers
- Geology
- Bees, basalts, and hexagons
- Brandywine Falls: A hangover from the Ice Age
- How old is a mountain?
- Meager, Garibaldi, and Black Tusk
- Mount Cayley
- Ring Mountain – Tuya or Table Mountain
- Rocks and Runs (the geology of Whistler Mountain)
- The Pacific Ring of Fire (as seen from Whistler/Blackcomb)
- Why Flute is Red and Piccolo Green
- Glaciers
- Geology
- Other
- Fauna
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