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2023

February

Nature Book Club: January 2023
Staff Spotlight: Julia Miller-Black
What's Up with Groundhog Day Anyway?

2022

December

Nature Book Club: 2022 Reading List
Nature Book Club: November 2022

November

Nature Book Club: October 2022

October

Weekly Wisdom: High Park's spooky nature friends
Word of the Week: Pareidolia
Weekly Wisdom: Blue Jays aren't actually blue!
Weekly Wisdom: Juncos and their Toronto winter vacation
Nature Book Club: September 2022

September

Weekly Wisdom: What is Autumn Equinox?
Word of the Week: Ecdysis

August

Word of the Week: Sploot
Word of the Week: Speculum
Word of the Week: Onomatopoeia
Word of the Week: Chiropterology

July

Word of the Week: Echolocation
Word of the Week: Lepidopterology
Word of the Week: Herpetology
Word of the Week: Extirpation
Word of the Week: Anthocyanin
Nature Book Club: June 2022

June

Word of the Week: Diclinous
Word of the Week: Monoclinous
Staff Spotlight: Tina Soldovieri
Word of the Week: Cygnet
Word of the Week: Aposematism
Nature Book Club: May 2022

May

Word of the Week: Hyompora
Word of the Week: Nictate
Word of the Week: Stamen
Word of the Week: Florescence
Nature Book Club: April 2022

April

An Interview with Elyse Waugh
Word of the Week: Peduncle
Word of the Week: Savannah
Word of the Week: Oölogy
Word of the Week: Flyways
Word of the Week: Polypore
Nature Book Club: March 2022

March

Staff Spotlight: Grace Dietrich
Word of the Week: Matutinal
Word of the Week: Primaveral
Word of the Week: Liquescent
Word of the Week: Cosmognosis
Nature Book Club: February 2022

February

Word of the Week: Frore
Staff Spotlight: Emily Green
Word of the Week: Gelid
Word of the Week: Vespertine
Word of the Week: Mnemonic
Nature Book Club: January 2022

January

Word of the Week: Apricity
Beavers in High Park
Word of the Week: Spoor
Staff Spotlight: Dara Babaran
Word of the Week: Preening
Nature Book Club:November

2021

December

Word of the Week: Caching
Owl prowl: Night hikes through a nature interpreter's lens
Word of the Week: Acclimatization
Word of the Week: Brumation
Word of the Week: Nivean
Word of the Week: Sposh

November

Word of the Week: Strobilus
Word of the Week: Susurrus
Word of the Week: Abscission
Word of the Week: Dabble

October

Word of the Week: Colony
Word of the Week: Hallux
Word of the Week: Mast

September

Word of the Week: Kettle
Word of the Week: Stridulate
Word of the Week: Melittology
Word of the Week: Gorget

August

Word of the Week: Webbed (Ring-Billed Gull)
Word of the Week: Ballooning (Goldenrod Crab Spider)
Word of the Week: Peridium (Poison Pigskin Puffball)
Coyotes
Word of the Week: Calyx (Wild Bergamot)

July

Green Frog
Word of the Week: Tymbal (Cicada)
Word of the Week: Cervid (White-tailed deer)
Word of the Week: Instar
Catalpa
Word of the Week: Globose
Word of the Week: Wingbar

June

Word of the Week: Omnivore
Word of the Week: Puddling
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Word of the Week: Uropygium
Every Child Matters
Word of the Week: Lobate

May

Word of the Week: Apothecium
Word of the Week: Spur
Red-backed Salamanders
Dawn Chorus Podcast
Word of the Week: Anting
Word of the Week: Scute
Brown-headed Cowbirds

April

Word of the Week: Chiroptera
Word of the Week: Brood
Mourning Cloak Butterflies
Word of the Week: Kleptothermy
Word of the Week: Colletidae
Bird Language
Word of the Week: Undulating

March

Word of the Week: Univoltine
Spring Ephemerals
Camp FAQ
Word of the Week: Pistil
Word of the Week: Mobbing
Gummy Gummosis
Word of the Week: Torpor

February

Word of the Week: Vinaceous
8 Things You Might Not Know About Northern Cardinals
Word of the Week: Gall
Word of the Week: Reniform
Word of the Week: Vibrissae

January

Word of the Week: Castoreum
Word of the Week: Picidae
Word of the Week: Gait
Word of the Week: Mycobiont
Word of the Week: Monomorphic

2020

December

New Year Nature
Word of the Week: Umbo
Sound Exploration
Sky Watching
Nature Meditation
Leafy Scrapbooking
Importance of Staying on Trails
Nature Art
Word of the Week: Bacciferous
Sneaky Voles
Word of the Week: Cryoprotectant
Word of the Week: Denudate

November

Dark-eyed Junco
Word of the Week: Granivore
Word of the Week: Achene
Sassy Sassafras
Word of the Week: Ascomycete
Word of the Week: Setae
Canadian Bat Box Project

October

Word of the Week: Lamellae
Word of the Week: Gular
Common Jewelweed
Word of the Week: Cantharidin
Word of the Week: Cupule
Let's Talk About Rot
Word of the Week: Loment

September

Word of the Week: Alula
Sky Blue Aster
Word of the Week: Aril
Word of the Week: Dendrochronology
Spotted Sandpiper
Word of the Week: Prehensile

August

Word of the Week: Gleba
10 Things You Did Not Know About Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds
Word of the Week: Plastron
Word of the Week: Capreolate
Adult Workshops FAQ
Urban Naturalists Club FAQ
Physically Distanced / Connected to Nature
Nature Club FAQ
Word of the Week: Tympanum

July

Word of the Week: Crepuscular
A Winged Opportunist
Word of the Week: Protura
Word of the Week: Avivore
Living Fossil: The Dawn Redwood Tree
Upcycled Seed Starters (3 Ways)
Word of the Week: Canid
Nature Ice Lanterns
Paper Roll Binoculars
Word of the Week: Panicle
Homemade Nature Memory Game
Yoga in the Park FAQ
Baltimore Orioles

June

Word of the Week: Rhabdom
Upcycled Flower Mobile
Nature Doodle Art
Word of the Week: Precocial
Student Singer
Word of the Week: Canescent

May

Word of the Week: Myrmecochory
Planet Sun Catcher Craft
Word of the Week: Bract
Mighty Mayapple
Toilet Paper Roll Snake Craft
Upcycled Scrap Paper Beads
Word of the Week: Frondescence
Word of the Week: Pullulate
May Sounds
Egg Carton Animal Mask Craft
Word of the Week: Vernal

April

Smell & Seek
Salt Dough Recipe
Word of the Week: Operculum
Animals Making Homes for Other Animals
Bird Nest Cookie Recipe
Word of the Week: Burl
Birch Tree Watercolour Painting
Word of the Week: Zugunruhe
Telling Them Apart: Hairy vs. Downy Woodpecker
Word of the Week: Cecotrope

March

Pinecone Owlet Craft
Word of the Week: Murmuration
Egg Carton Tree Craft
Cecropia Moth
Clothespin Bird Zipline Craft
Owl Pellet Cookie Recipe
Word of the Week: Pulvinus
Nature Book Club: February
Word of the Week: Allopreen
10 Things You Might Not Know about Mourning Doves
Word of the Week: Urushiol

February

Word of the Week: Zygodactyl
Insect Galls
Word of the Week: Gummosis
Word of the Week: Chionophile
Ten Reasons to Love Chickadees
Word of the Week: Diapause
Nature Book Club: January

January

Word of the Week: Solivagant
Busy Squirrels
Wonderful Wanders: Jessie's Perfect Day
Word of the Week: Peiskos
Awesome Opossum
Word of the Week: Biochrome
Word of the Week: Thallus
Word of the Week: Whorl

2019

December

Stay in Touch with Nature with Winter Birding
Word of the Week: Passerine
Top 5 Things to Do in High Park in Winter
Ringing in the New Year in High Park with Emma Rooney
Word of the Week: Latibule
Word of the Week: Drupe
Nature Book Club: November
Winter Nature Clubs
Word of the Week: Olfaction
Surprising Snake Sighting

November

Word of the Week: Cutin
Word of the Week: Cloaca
Nature's Architects: The Eastern Chipmunk
Word of the Week: Gastrolith
Word of the Week: Rostrum
Red in the Fall
Nature Book Club: October
Word of the Week: Basidiospore

October

Word of the Week: Palmate
Blister Beetles
Nature Book Club: September
Word of the Week: Drey
Word of the Week: Pappus
Woolly Bear Winter Forecast

September

Word of the Week: Palate
Busy Blue Jays
Word of the Week: Saprophyte
Word of the Week: Spikelet
Sunny Sunflowers

August

Word of the Week: Endemism
Word of the Week: Semelparous
Fall Nature Clubs
Getting to Know Backyard Bugs
Word of the Week: Ecotone
Word of the Week: Detritivore
Pigskin Poison Puffball
Word of the Week: Scapulars
Word of the Week: Proboscis

July

Early Goldenrod
Word of the Week: Rhizome
Word of the Week: Talon
Cicada Song
Word of the Week: Pterostigma
Butter Flying Time

June

Word of the Week: Samara
Word of the Week: Deciduous
White-Tailed Deer
Word of the Week: Hydrophyte
Nature Book Club: May
Word of the Week: Symbiosis
Word of the Week: Oviparous
Wild Blue Lupines

May

Word of the Week: Spadix
An Interview with Emma Rooney
Word of the Week: Runoff
An Interview with Clarissa Cremin-Endes & Jon Hayes
Daring Ducklings
Word of the Week: Sepal
Nature Book Club: April
Word of the Week: Altricial
Getting to Know Peak Bloom
Poison Ivy in Early Spring
Cherry Blossoms: In Anticipation
Word of the Week: Efflorescence

April

Word of the Week: Elaiosome
Word of the Week: Aggregation
Vehicle-Free Cherry Blossoms
Nature Book Club: March
Word of the Week: Vermivore
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Word of the Week: Dioecious

March

Word of the Week: Germinate
Silver Maple Blooms
Word of the Week: Rivulet
Word of the Week: Apricate
Blackbirds are Back
Word of the Week: Alight
Spring Nature Clubs
Nature Book Club: February
Word of the Week: Paddling

February

Winter Lodging
Word of the Week: Lenticel
Word of the Week: Dendrite
An Interview with Nellie Sue Potter
The Giving Tree
Word of the Week: Petrichor

January

Word of the Week: Photobiont
Secrets in the Snow
Nature Book Club: January
Word of the Week: Plumicorn
Early Chipmunk Sighting
Word of the Week: Iridescence
Marcescence in High Park
Word of the Week: Cathemeral
An Interview with Nancy Barrett
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Word of the Week: Carapace

2018

December

Word of the Week: Hibernaculum
Red-necked Grebe
Word of the Week: Supercilium
Word of the Week: Bole
Word of the Week: Fascicle
Mice
Nature Book Club: November

November

Winter Nature Clubs
Word of the Week: Allelopathy
Word of the Week: Tendril
Nuthatches
Word of the Week: Shrub
Nature Book Club: October
Word of the Week: Senescence
Green Invasives
Word of the Week: Petiole

October

Word of the Week: Aposematism
Witch-hazel Flowers
Word of the Week: Patagium
Word of the Week: Saproxylic
Nature Book Club: September
Blister Beetles
Word of the Week: Epizoochory

September

Word of the Week: Hirsute
An Interview with Nellie Sue Potter
An Interview with Dan Stuart
An Interview With Timothy Leduc
Word of the Week: Ballooning

August

Bird's Nest Fungus
Word of the Week: Hyphae
Fall Nature Clubs
Word of the Week: Ovipositor
Word of the Week: Epilithic
Word of the Week: Epaulettes

July

Staff Spotlight: Nadine Nesbitt
Word of the Week: Ligule
Word of the Week: Mycorrhizal

June

Word of the Week: Heartwood
Word of the Week: Inflorescence
Word of the Week: Mycelium
Word of the Week: Catkin
Nature Book Club: May

May

Word of the Week: Smeuse
Staff Spotlight: Katrina Maurer
Word of the Week: Insectivore
Word of the Week: Littoral
Baltimore Oriole Sighting
Word of the Week: Sough
Word of the Week: Riparian

April

Nature Book Club: April
Staff Spotlight: Julie Read
Word of the Week: Snag
Word of the Week: Poikilohydric
Word of the Week: Fossorial
Word of the Week: Midden
Nature Book Club: March

March

Word of the Week: Coprophagy
Word of the Week: Ephemeral
Black-Crowned Night Heron Sighting
Word of the Week: Ootheca
Word of the Week: Gait
Staff Spotlight: Kami Valkova
Nature Book Club: February

February

Nature Book Club: January

January

Staff Spotlight: Chantale Spencer

2017

December

Staff Spotlight: Sara Street

September

Partial Solar Eclipse Day at the High Park Nature Centre

August

Solar Eclipse 2017!

July

Tales from OURSpace

June

Tick Aware in Toronto

March

Happiness in Hibernation
Three Baby Animals You Might See in High Park This Spring
Winter Diet for the Animals of High Park

February

Coniferous Tree ID: Scots Pine

January

Tiny but Mighty: The Red-Breasted Nuthatch

2016

December

Top 5 Things to Do in High Park in Winter
Nature Book Club: January 2023
February 17, 2023 by High Park Nature Centre
Welcome to Nature Book Club! Here we will share what our book club is reading each month!...
Staff Spotlight: Julia Miller-Black
February 10, 2023 by Julia Miller-Black
Welcome to Staff Spotlight! Here we highlight the diverse stories of our valuable staff!...
What's Up with Groundhog Day Anyway?
February 02, 2023 by High Park Nature Centre
Nature Book Club: 2022 Reading List
December 22, 2022 by High Park Nature Centre
Welcome to Nature Book Club! Here's a complete reading lsit of all the books our book club has been reading all year long!...
Nature Book Club: November 2022
December 01, 2022 by High Park Nature Centre
Welcome to Nature Book Club! Here we will share what our book club is reading each month!...
Nature Book Club: October 2022
November 01, 2022 by High Park Nature Centre
Welcome to Nature Book Club! Here we will share what our book club is reading each month!...
Weekly Wisdom: High Park's spooky nature friends
October 28, 2022 by High Park Nature Centre
Welcome to Weekly Wisdom! Stay tuned for some fun nature facts to amp up your nature knowledge!...
Word of the Week: Pareidolia
October 21, 2022 by High Park Nature Centre
Welcome to Word of the Week! Stay tuned for a new word each week to amp up your nature vocabulary!...
Weekly Wisdom: Blue Jays aren't actually blue!
October 14, 2022 by High Park Nature Centre
Welcome to Weekly Wisdom! Stay tuned for some fun nature facts to amp up your nature knowledge!...
Weekly Wisdom: Juncos and their Toronto winter vacation
October 06, 2022 by High Park Nature Centre
Welcome to Weekly Wisdom! Stay tuned for some fun nature facts to amp up your nature knowledge!...
Nature Book Club: September 2022
October 01, 2022 by High Park Nature Centre
Welcome to Nature Book Club! Here we will share what our book club is reading each month!...
Weekly Wisdom: What is Autumn Equinox?
September 22, 2022 by High Park Nature Centre
Welcome to Weekly Wisdom! Stay tuned for some fun nature facts to amp up your nature knowledge!...
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