The Odanak environment and land office carried out an inventory of nocturnal owls near Odanak (2017 and 2018). This is a national program to document the presence of various species on a very large scale with the help of numerous voluntary and non-volunteer collaborators. This is what we call citizen science!
The principle is very simple. We take a route punctuated by several stops during which we play a recording containing several songs of nocturnal owls. Individuals looking for a partner, or simply those who feel provoked, respond to the call, allowing us to locate them.
During our surveys for a single evening, we were fortunate to detect the presence of a Great Horned Owl within the community of Odanak as well as several Barred Owls.
