Explore the outdoors in your own backyard using your eyes and ears…but also ask questions at conservation areas or visit your library for books on local habitats. 

Check out some of these amazing facts:

• The skin of amphibians (such as frogs) is not waterproof!
• There are 462 species of birds in Canada, and 318 of them are in Ontario!
• The Boreal Forest makes up one-third of the world’s entire forests, and Canada holds one-third of all the Boreal Forests on earth, home to more than 1,000 different species of wildlife!
• The ruby-throated hummingbird beats its wings up to 75 times in one second!
• Canada has the last population on earth of the Atlantic (or Acadian) Whitefish, which was once anadromous; laying eggs in freshwater, but living all other times in the saltwater of the ocean!
• Lemmings are mouse-like rodents that live in the Arctic, and their Inuit name is kilangmiutak, which means “one-who-comes-from-the-sky." The legend of lemmings falling from the sky is common to Inuit all across the North American Arctic and Scandinavia!