Protecting biodiversity in Montreal with Canada's largest city park

By Matthew Hague

Every autumn, the Canada warbler, a songbird with black stripes around its lemon yellow throat, begins a 5,000-kilometre journey from its breeding ground in the boreal forest to its winter home in South America. Migrating songbirds need a connected corridor of green space to find adequate food and shelter. Kyle Elliott, ornithologist at McGill University’s Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Due to urbanization, the trek has become precarious. The shrub lands where it feeds on insects were once abundant but are now paved over for suburbs. Read More