joint program of the Long Point Bird Observatory and Conservation Inter- 
     
     national - Canada has produced educational materials including a practical 
     
     guide to planting trees and shrubs, a 13 minute children’s video titled 
     
     Songbird Story. They are now undertaking planting programs in Ontario and 
     
     have initiated an international information exchange between students in 
     
     four countries with the Manomet Observatory for Conservation Sciences in 
     
     Massachussets, Econciencia in southern Mexico, and Fundacion Fauna Sil- 
     
     vetsre Argentina in Buenos Aires. Contact Ken Towle Conservation Inter- 
     
     national - Canada, 174 Spadina Avenue, Suite 508, Toronto, Ontario MST 2C2 
     
     416-366-6100 (adapted from Long Point Observatory Newsletter 26:3, 1994). 
     
    

    
     Congratulations to the O’Leary Wildlife Federation for initiating the 
     
     "voluntary trout management zone" on the Trout River from Coleman Corner to 
     
     the forks. Forty-seven anglers agreed to participate in such measures as 
     
     reducing daily bag limit to six, releasing fish under six inches, keeping 
     
     only one trout over 14", using barbless hooks, and fly fishing only after 
     
     September 5th (adapted from Salar 13:4, Nov. 1994). 
     
    

    
     FLAP - now that’s a catchy bird acronym! It stands for Fatal Light 
     
     Awareness Program and was coined by a Toronto group working on preventing 
     
     bird strikes on office towers during migration and the rehabilitation of 
     
     birds which strike them. Membership is $ 10 and FLAP can be contacted at 1 
     
     Guelph Road, Erin, Ont. NOB 1T0 905-831-3527 (adapted from Flap Release). 
     
    
   
   
    
     FRESHWATER SCULPIN DISCOVERED: by Ted Currie 
     
     & Dan McAskill 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sometimes unfortunate events bring unexpected discoveries. During the 
     
     investigation of the Big Pierre Jacques River pesticide fish kill, Ted 
     
     Currie discovered the first record of a freshwater or slimy sculpin, Cottus 
     
     cognatus Richardson on Prince Edward Island. 
     
    

    
     This northern species of sculpin 
     
     lives in cold freshwater and ranges in 
     
     northern North America from P.E.I. and 
     
     New Brunswick to Alaska. It is closely 
     
     related to the mottled sculpin (C. 
     
     bairdi Girard) which overlaps part of 
     
     its range. Little is know of its 
     
     biology but New York studies showed that 
     
     sexually mature males selected a nest 
     
     site under a rock ledge or tree root and 
     
     courted one or more females who entered and deposited the adhesive eggs in 
     
     a mass on the ceiling of the nest. The males then guarded the nest and 
     
     young, sometimes until the young had started feeding. 
     
    

    
     In Northern Saskatchewan, spawning occurred in early May at approx- 
     
     imately 8°C and the eggs took about four weeks to hatch. The available 
     
     food data indicates that they eat primarily aquatic bottom invertebrates, 
     
     particularly insect larva such as mayflies, caddisflies, dipterous larvae, 
     
     stoneflies, and dragonflies. Some plant materials are also consumed. This 
     
     species is eaten by brook trout and, in Nipigon waters where it is used for 
     
     trout bait, it is know as "cockatouch". 
     
    

    
     Source: Scott, W.B. & E. J. Crossman, 1973. Freshwater Fishes of 
     
    

    
     Canada, Fisheries Research Board of Canada Bulletin 184. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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