Welcome to the Pembroke Area
Field Naturalists Club
Situated in the Ottawa
Valley in Eastern Ontario, our organization is 25 years old.
Formerly the Pembroke & Area Bird Club, we have documented
302 species of birds within our birding circle, being most of central Renfrew County, ON and
western Pontiac County, QC.
 Check out the 2012
PAFN Trips and Events on our Events
page!
 Check
out the Shaw Woods
Outdoor Education
Centre.
Renfrew County Mapping is an interactive
mapping tool that enables users to search for properties, find
points of interest, locate street addresses, create maps and
perform various other geographic searches in the County of
Renfrew.
eButterfly
Every
year hundreds of people across Canada observe, photograph and
collect butterflies for fun and for science. Now eButterfly
users can contribute to an interactive online database by
submitting their observations and photos (wild or specimen)
through our intuitive data input system, with its many drop
down lists of sites, species and dates. It will be easy for
you to add photographs. Advanced tools are available to then
turn the data into your own checklists, dynamic distribution
maps and virtual butterfly photo collections. An added benefit
of this growing online community database is that it already
contains hundreds of thousands of butterfly records ranging
from 150 years ago to the present. Finally, you will be able
to share your sightings and join the interactive eButterfly
national community. To ensure the validity of data entries,
regional experts review records submitted and consult when
necessary with users. All records posted on eButterfly can be
made publicly available or secured if you choose not to make
them public.
Scientists will be able to use the data to develop
up-to-date species distribution models (SDMs). Then the
impacts on butterflies can be measured of factors related to
climate change, including temperature and precipitation
variations, as well as effects of human land use. The results
will help us understand and mitigate impacts of global change
on Canadian butterfly diversity and help conservation
biologists decide where conservation efforts should be
focused.
The new Bird
Lister's Corner for PAFN Club members is now
operational and will be updated quarterly.Send your
lists in to Ken Hooles at hooles@bell.net by May 20 to
be included in the next update!
Top 10 Naturalist Destinations in
Renfrew County, including species lists (compiled by Chris Michener):
http://www.ottawavalley.travel/naturalist-guide/
Renfrew
County Biotabase
The Renfrew
County Biotabase is an online flora and fauna survey of
Renfrew County. Please check out the Biotabase newsletter to
see how you can get involved. Your surveys, sightings, and
lists of species identified in Renfrew County will be valuable
additions to our knowledge of the flora and fauna of
Renfrew County.
Ongoing PAFN programs
include:
Gathering and
providing data on winter bird populations and distribution to
Bird Studies Canada by conducting two Christmas Bird Counts,
in Pembroke and Eganville.
Gathering distribution and
diversity data for butterfly studies by conducting two annual
Butterfly Counts in Renfrew County.
Contributing odonata
population and distribution data to the Toronto Entomologists
Association by conducting an annual dragonfly count.
Conducting a winter
waterfowl survey on the Ottawa River in conjunction with the
Ministry of Natural Resources.
Leading a variety of public
field trips throughout the year to introduce and educate
participants to the biodiversity of our region.
Hosting open meetings with
educational presentations and guest speakers.
Participating in Renfrew
County Natural History Day.
Setting up an information display at
the Renfrew County Annual Outdoor Woodlot
Conference.
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Pembroke Area Field
Naturalists