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Nature Tidbits
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Registrace 16. 01. 2011
Little bits of wild nature from different parts of the world.
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Guidelines for eating Lake Ontario fish
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Do you know how to interpret the Fish Consumption Guidelines? Do you know what 'one meal per month' actually means? Here I show you how many Chinook Salmon of spawning size you can safely eat from Lake Ontario. The answer? ONE per 10 MONTHS if you're an adult male (and only in some locations); ZERO if you're a kid or will become pregnant. That doesn't include PFAS/PFOS contamination either! And...
American Brook Lamprey
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This is Ontario's most common native lamprey species. Juveniles filter feed and adults do not feed at all - they spawn and then die. Please do not harm or kill our native lamprey! As this species is found on the Ontario side of all the Great Lakes, and this channel is run by a Canadian, yes the units are in metric - for the convenience of Americans, these fish tend to be less than 8 inches long.
Red-tailed tropicbird (Tern Island, 2007)
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On the NW Hawaiian Island of Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals, we had Red-tailed tropicbirds. These birds are pretty cool: they circle each other in the air, moving their two red tail feathers back and forth, during courting; their legs are too far back on their body for them to walk on land, so they push themselves forward onto their chest; and the can be very territorial, biting intruders! ...
Shark attacks albatross
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A tiger shark leaps from the water to eat a black-footed albatross fledgling. This clip is highly digitally stabilized hence the weird edging effect. Tern Island, 2007. @usfws
White Tern (Tern Island, 2007)
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Looking back on my time on Tern Island (French Frigate Shoals, NW Hawaiian Islands). Here we can the White Tern, a bird that doesn't make a nest but instead lays an egg on pretty much any flat surface it can find (in a human-modified landscape, that includes window ledges, trailers, and hose spigots!).
Black footed albatross behaviour (Tern Island, 2007)
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A look back at my time on Tern Island (French Frigate Shoals, NW Hawaiian Islands, 2007). Here you get to see Black-footed Albatross feed their chicks, watch the chicks grow up and flap their wings, then witness their first fledging...watch to the end to see a pretty epic predation event courtesy of Tiger Shark vs Albatross!
Black-footed Albatross courting (Tern Island 2007)
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Looking back on my time on Tern Island (French Frigate Shoals, NW Hawaiian Islands) in 2007. Here we see the courtship behaviour (mating dance) of Black-footed Albatross. Even though mating season is over for the year, young birds and unsuccessful breeders sometimes practice throughout the summer. The courtship ritual has many movements and sounds. I left the ambient audio on this video so you ...
Black noddy (Hawaii 2007)
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Looking back on my time on Tern Island (French Frigate Shoals, NW Hawaiian Islands) in 2007. Here are some clips of Black Noddy behaviour. Apologies for the lower quality and video shake - it's a windy place and my camera at that time was not great!
Steelhead adults and salmon fry (March 2024)
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Steelhead (migratory rainbow trout) and chinook/coho salmon fry are out and about in March! From a Lake Ontario tributary.
Pratt's Dam Rainbow Trout Lift 2024
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Volunteers gather to lift migratory Rainbow Trout over Pratt's Dam in Cobourg Creek. The dam is privately owned and blocks the migration of all fish. The only reason the dam still exists? The owner likes the falling-down hunk of concrete, regardless of the negative effects it has on the fish community and stream health.
Crossbills in Algonquin Provincial Park
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Watch the red crossbills (and the occasional cameo by a white-winged crossbill) lick salt and grit off the roadways in Algonquin Provincial Park. Amongst the flocks of pine siskins, purple finches (text in video is incorrect - not house finches!) and common redpolls are also visible.
Otter tells off beaver
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Sound on! A river otter vocalizes at a beaver for venturing too close. Algonquin Provincial Park, 2024.
Presqu'ile Provincial Park
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Some birds from early winter 2022 - long-tailed ducks, mute swans, goldfinch, chickadees, red-breasted nuthatch, and gulls eating a dead fish.
Brook trout and Atlantic salmon (Quebec)
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Brook trout and Atlantic salmon (Quebec)
With inflation the cost of food is crazy this is only going to get worse
Thank you!!!
Awesome footage
Absolutely ridiculous at best 😢
Oh wow! This is so awesome!!!!
And I’m sorry but I can see if you’re in dire need and homeless and snagging 2 fish and cookin 1 up right then and there! I can let that slide but these guys just to do intentionally it’s inexcusable
And how many are local native residents? Or are American residents?? Might wanna look into that!! I’ve seen many people from Russia , China, Laos, Cambodia, Saudi Arabia one fish here n California and snagging chinook and keeping over their bay limit then they leave a d coke back in the evening again doing the same thing.. that’s when I video and video take license plate pic and of their car and forward that info to a good friend of mine 😂
the government should make a passage way for all the salmon to pass easily
Wonderful videos. Watching these gentle giants waving their bodies in the water never gets old!
Beautiful video! I'm heading to that area with my two kids at the end of this summer. We are so excited - is there a specific tidelpool that you would recommend visiting?
Mainly I just stopped at rest stops and explored around! Have a look when the tide is out especially and you should find lots of critters - these were taken along the Gaspe Peninsula in several spots.
@@NatureTidbits thanks so much for the tip! 😁
Bottom line is,nobody should keep the larger fish,really...
Great video , very informative
American but size is in metric, um what dude
The species occurs in Canada, this channel is run by a Canadian and this was filmed in Ontario. So, metric. :)
Very cool little animals. I’ll be sure to be careful with any I come across.
I consider myself an animal enthusiast, and have never heard of these lampreys prior to your video. Thanks for the info, subbed.
I had no idea!😢
American brook lamprey living in America yet you used commie units lol.
20cm is one and a half bananas or 0.8 Pringles cans in length.
My brother in criminal affairs, the description says Ontario.
Cancer
North America includes Canada smartass. Ontario
20 cm should be about 0.00182 of a football field
It's flying days are over!!
I wish I was an albatross
He didn’t attack, he wolfed it!
what flavor was it ?
albatross flavour
it's bloody seabird flavor isn't it !?
Poor bird.
And that's the end of that chapter
Damn nature you scuruh
😮 !!!!
What kind of loser casts into that mass of fish???!!!! Let them Do what comes natural in peace…and I’m a fisherman They have a hard enough journey without a dipshit in the way…I’ve never seen so many species intermingled at once….amazing video!!!!
So adorable!
Pretty awesome plz share more!
Is this the invasive lamprey?
No, it's one of our native species.
Thanks! Really enjoyed your video and spent many hours in the park watching them this year. Algonquin Park doesn't get House Finches, those are Purple Finches you are seeing all over the park.
Thanks for the correction - Purple Finches it is!
Great work by volunteers! How does one get involved? I’d love to sign up
You just have to show up on the day (no advance sign-up required). The exact day is typically a saturday but varies; it's generally posted on some social media before the event, or the GRCA (they do the permit) would know as well.
Thats some great underwater filming , thanks for the posting
It's a shame the province can't mandate it's removal. You'd think they'd have that power to protect the natural ecosystem.
Wouldn't that be nice!
Help the owners build a fish ladder.
The dam is not stable enough for a fish ladder. That would also only help jumping species (so species like White Sucker could not pass). The owner has been offered solutions, but has declined them.
Its nice to see the small population of steelhead swim up the creek after the lift. But the creek holds resident trout populations above it. I fear they would decline with the competition of migratory fish and other warmer water species having year round access to the waters. Not to mention the horrible fishing etiquette that it would attract having large migratory runs. The best fishing i ever had in these tribs were the years they didnt do the fish lift because of covid. Great video, thanks for sharing!
An EXCELLENT example of "there's two sides to every story." I fish inshore saltwater in N.E. Florida. I have seen populations of one species decline because of over protection of a different species....and the vulnerability of "that" species was highly questionable, if at all. Thanks for the comment. Not all "tree hugging" is beneficial. I want a healthy ecosystem as much as the next guy. But I want it based on SOUND SCIENCE, not whimsical knee jerk decisions that aren't beneficial or serve to line the pockets a select few.
Or the resident trout would benefit from the subsidies of eggs every spring and fall if all species had access!
@NatureTidbits Did you just exclamation point him? You don't state any evidence, only a maybe. He just told you his fishing experience during covid verses before and after. Yet, you lend no credibility to that. Even if he's mistaken, which he's probably not, you don't get to yell at him. Life is a series of trade-offs. Maybe we only have the option of one spices thriving. Maybe there's a nice balance. But we'll never know when "so-called" environmentalists are driven to operate with tunnel vision. You should have THANKED him with an exclamation point, like he did to you. I know your type. The fishermen know. I've spent 15-20 hours a week on the water, fishing 15-20 different species for 25 years. I've seen the rules change, the results, and who benefits. Have fun with your self-serving fish parties.
Exclamation point him? Interesting phrase. It wasn't yelling, it was emphasis. Sorry you misunderstood the intent. I'd be happy to share the evidence that subsidies from migratory fish support higher abundances of other fish - check out doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12762 and doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12494 and doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(2003)132<0371:MSIFES>2.0.CO;2 as examples. Sure life has trade-offs, but that doesn't mean the trade-offs are equally good or have to occur in all scenarios. As for the rest of your comments, you don't know me or my experience, yet you seem to accuse me of having tunnel vision because...why? I'm suggesting the removal of a dam benefits the fish? The science is clear: dams are not good if you want healthy streams. I can't address the rest of his comment because I unclear what he was fishing for and when. I assume he means the rainbow trout lift is damaging to resident (presumably brown) trout above the dam (since he had better fishing when the lift didn't happen), but he was also happy about the lift happening. I'd be happy to continue that conversation.
@NatureTidbits Why? Your first comment was short, uniformative, and snappy. If you had said half of what you just wrote to me to him, I wouldn't have been so accusatory. Now I'm off to read your hyperlink. Remember, "None of us is as smart as all of us." ....except with a mob. The witch hunters are wrong because there's no such thing as a witch. Just a bunch of angry and misguided people. I was very clear in my initial reply to the other poster..... I want a healthy ecosystem. But I also want decisions based on SOUND science. He left some doubt in your science. Your first brash reply seemed to verify my suspension based on my experiences with past ecological decisions made in Florida and their poor outcomes. Your last reply lends credibility that you not only want changes made based on sound science, you're actually DOING something to implement those changes.
Thats awesome
awesome video and a great story , thanks to all the volunteers for helping !!! over the years there has been much debate over dams and the migration of fish , hopefully we as humans can get it figured out soon
A Holes!
Anglers?
a lo0t of peaple have no idea how to properly release s fish
I just love seeing birds usually meant as pets to be in a big flock like that. It's just really neat.
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why dont they build a fish ladder that actually works?
It works, but like most it doesn't work perfectly, and no one really knows how 'well' it works - beyond looking like most fish pass. And how much the delay affects them, no one knows.
A superb video. In Europe are European Siskins, Crossbills and Common Redpolls, too. But I myself never captured, not even saw
Very nice video of this spacial birds.
Awesome!
Its so cute i love it
Wowie Zowie!
A very illuminating performance!