Postcards from McGill (Page 3)

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Travel notes

Surveying at the Molson Nature Reserve so far reveals over 300 plant species.

Experiments in breeding and production of soya beans, corn and cereal crops take place during the summer at the Emile A. Lods Agronomy Research Centre.

Endangered loggerhead shrikes are being raised at Macdonald to help develop release techniques.

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Bug collecting

Jessica Epstein, BSc(Agr)'99, (standing) and Sofia Fuga, BSc(Agr)'00, identify and catalogue plants at the Molson Nature Reserve on Île Perrot. This parcel of land, recently donated to Macdonald Campus, is a natural flood-plain forest.



At the microscope is Jade Savage, BSc'99, a PhD student in entomology at Macdonald. One of her projects is classifying a group of flies. Surely they're all just annoying?

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Avian Science and Conservation Centre

Master's student Joanna Coleman, BSc'99, with the great horned owl known as Stevie, a special guest at the Avian Science and Conservation Centre on the West Island campus. His job? To attract wild sharp-shinned hawks so they can be banded and undergo blood and DNA tests.
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