WHO ARE WE

We are a group of citizens, nature and biodiversity lovers defending Montreal's wetlands and green spaces.

We are twenty volunteers in the TechnoparcOiseaux group.
In winter, we install and keep full bird feeders in the Des Sources Ecological Park, ADM sector.
Volunteers organize observation hikes.
We administer the Website, our Facebook , Twitter , eBird , iNaturalist and Instagram pages.
We take physical care of the trails and signage all year round.
We install, repair and clean the multiple supervised nestboxes.
We organize meetings with the various municipal, provincial and federal stakeholders.
Cleaning chores, bird surveys, hikes and other activities are organized.

Great Gray Owl (Stix nebulosa)

By Christina McCallum

THE TECHNOPARCOISEAUX TEAM

Members

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AMONG OUR THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS, SOME ARE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE WORK OF PROTECTING THESE PRECIOUS SITES AND IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE TECHNOPARCOISEAUX GROUP.

Thank you to the group and to each of these valiant people

MISSION AND

HISTORY

Crowned Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)

By Eric Giret

Eddie 2021

Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

By Angelika Hoehne

Since 2016, the Technoparc, wetlands and green spaces sector north of Montreal PET / YUL international airport has been visited thousands of times by bird watchers, photographers and hikers. And by some, long before that.

Since then, everyone has been impressed by the density and variety of the local biodiversity. It is people who love nature who formed the TechnoparcOiseaux group in 2016.

The important ecological value and the great biodiversity of the places make it an exceptionally wild place in the heart of Montreal.

In the language of ornithologists, this place is recognized as being the best “Hot Spot” for bird watching on the Island of Montreal.

However, these places are in peril in the face of the mechanical shovels of the economic development of the Borough of Saint-Laurent and ADM in Dorval.

Since then, volunteers from TechnoparOiseaux and La Coalition Verte have fought several battles with the different levels of government involved, which has had the effect of slowing down their imminent destruction.

But, this sanctuary is still coveted by speculators and real estate developers who want to sell “Offices with a view of the Water”!

We have won battles and lost others, but the job is not done. We have a lot of work to do. No one can give up!

We must sit down with all those involved in this issue, which has serious consequences for nature. We want many amendments to be made to existing laws which do not sufficiently protect nature and which rather promote economic development .

We must, collectively, change the mentality of municipalities towards the way we treat the environment. Local governments, town halls, have great power over the use of their land. The provincial government of Quebec has great legislative power.

Quebec's “Regulation respecting compensation for damage to wetlands and bodies of water” is, in our opinion, a document that must undergo major revisions. This government decree makes it possible to build on wetlands while compensating for their destruction, when, on the contrary, their destruction must be effectively prevented.