August 5 2025: Access to woods and trails are closed please click here for more details.
August 5 2025: Access to woods and trails are closed please click here for more details.
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A Bird Friendly Town is a community where people take steps to protect birds and their habitats. This includes things like reducing threats to birds, restoring natural areas for them to live in, and involving residents in bird conservation efforts. The town plans to organize events focused on bird protection, and local government supports these activities.
Kentville chose the Crow as it's Bird of the Year for 2024! The American Crow is very social, sometimes forming flocks in the thousands- we see this in Kentville at dusk around the Business Park and Coldbrook. Inquisitive and sometimes mischievous, crows are good learners and problem-solvers. They’re also aggressive and often chase away larger birds including hawks, owls and herons. Hooray for Crow!
Being Bird Friendly is important because birds are crucial for healthy ecosystems and the environment overall. Towns and cities can be dangerous for birds, so making them bird-friendly helps support bird populations and biodiversity.
To help protect local birds, you can get involved in events celebrating birds, educate yourself about birds and how to help them, make your windows safer for birds, preserve bird habitats, and explore your interests in bird conservation.
Kentville, for example, is working on building a sense of community around bird conservation, raising awareness about bird-friendly practices, and creating policies to support bird protection as part of its broader efforts for climate action and environmental resilience.
We are close to an Important Bird Area!
Did you know that the Town of Kentville is adjacent to a significant Important Bird Area (IBA)! This designated area, spanning over 220 square kilometers from Canning all the way to Martock, is a place of international significance for the conservation of birds and biodiversity. IBAs are identified using criteria that are internationally agreed upon, standardized, quantitative, and scientifically backed.
Our local IBA, Southern Bright, hosts the staging grounds for an estimated 1 to 2 million shorebirds in late July and early August. At low tide, vast areas of mud and sand flats, and salt marshes are exposed harboring millions of Fundy mud shrimp, a vital food source for the Semipalmated Sandpiper! The Southern Bight and adjacent IBAs are the last and most important stopovers for the sandpipers, where they build up fat stores enabling them to make the long southward migration to South America in three to four days.
To learn more about the incredible local area, visit Southern Bight, Minas Basin IBA
What is a Bird Friendly Town?
A Bird Friendly Town is a community, designated by Nature Canada, that is working to help birds and bird habitat. Kentville is striving to be a town where:
Why is this important?
Birds play an essential role in maintaining healthy and resilient ecosystems in our community and our planet. Cities and towns present many hazards to birds and are threatening bird populations. Let’s help restore the Kentville and North American bird population!
What can we do?
Here are some ways you can help protect our local birds:
Here is a list of some of the migratory and resident birds in Kentville:
Where to bird in Kentville
Miner’s Marsh! 1.7 km of maintained trail as two connected loops of 0.8km and 1.2km respectively. You can access Miners Marsh from the Harvest Moon Trail at the intersection of the trail with Leverett Avenue (2 Klondyke Street), and from the parking area behind the Law Courts building on Bridge Street (81 Bridge Street).
The Gorge! 64.5-acre natural woodland with a variety of trail systems. Parking, site maps, a picnic shelter, skills park, and bike repair station greet you as you enter the park off the main trailhead on Gladys Porter Drive. You can also enter the park via the Grant Street entrance, which is a foot path. Both entrances have interpretive signage.
What is Kentville doing?
Want to learn more?
Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists
Where Do You Want To Go Birding in NS?