{"id":666197,"date":"2026-05-13T07:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666197\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:28:33","slug":"this-kamloops-event-is-for-the-birds-and-environmental-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666197\/","title":{"rendered":"This Kamloops event is for the birds \u2013 and environmental science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f509a215-06b8-4a88-bd3f-198e53902078.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: Kamloops Naturalist Club\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>By Elora McCormack<\/p>\n<p>Big Bird Day<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 11, 2026 | 4:21 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>KAMLOOPS \u2014 Volunteers with the Kamloops Naturalist Club will be out birdwatching this Saturday (May 16) as part of the annual Ralph Ritcey Memorial Big Bird Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Bird Day has been going on for at least 25 years. It\u2019s a competition between north and south Kamloops. We have an area with 60 kilometres of Mount Dufferin Tower, and everything in there is fair game,\u201d said Nancy Flood, current president of BC Nature and former president of the Kamloops Naturalist Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne team goes on the north side of the river, one checks everything on the south side of the river and the goal is to find as many species as we can. We start at 12:00 noon, but you can start at midnight if you want to hear owls, and all of the teams start at 4:00 p.m. and we go to the Ritceys\u2019 house for a round up at 5:00 p.m.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the north and south teams spotted a combined total 149 bird species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: Kamloops Naturalist Club\/Facebook) By Elora McCormack Big Bird Day May 11, 2026 | 4:21 PM KAMLOOPS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-666197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}