The resident Canadian Geese will stay all year round in Medicine Hat
MEDICINE HAT, AB. – The annual Christmas Bird Count was held on Sunday December 17th in Police Point Park to help collect census data.
The Medicine Hat Interpretive Program has data dating back 36 years, said Park Interpreter Marty Drut.
“The idea of the Christmas bird count is to get an idea of population trends and winter bird distributions,” he explained. “If you have a long term data set, you can get a good idea of what is going on with birds.”
Drut said by looking back at previous years data, he can see how the Canadian Geese population has changed in Medicine Hat and there are two different behaviour types in this area.