Our Study Circle

Many natural history and birding clubs in Ontario have adopted a 50-km checklist circle, having followed the lead of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club which created the first official 30-mile circle in 1895.   This circle is used to produce checklists for birds, wild flowers, butterflies, ...

The five counties (the United counties of Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry, and Prescott-Russell) make up the major portion of the circle. When looking at the map you will notice that parts of Western Quebec and Northern New-York are also part of the circle. This 5 counties circle is the official study area of the Vankleek Hill Nature Society (established in 1977). 

The limits of this circle can be viewed on the interactive Google map at the following link 

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