Okanagan Nature Nut Narrows in on Bats
It’s bat season in B.C. They’ve migrated back to B.C. or left their hibernaculas to forage for insects. Most females have babies now. There are more than 1,400 known bat […]
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It’s bat season in B.C. They’ve migrated back to B.C. or left their hibernaculas to forage for insects. Most females have babies now. There are more than 1,400 known bat […]
They are some of the most delightfully coloured signs of spring. Some people say butterflies are like flying flowers. These important pollinators live in almost every habitat from wetlands and […]
Microbes are amazing! Too small to see with the naked eye, they are nature’s life forms observed through a microscope. Throughout human history, we never knew that microbes (short for […]
Get Outdoors Did you know that people have brown fat? I didn’t — until recently. I knew that bears, squirrels, winter birds and other wildlife do to survive the cold […]
Tracking is an exciting and marvellous way to discover wildlife in their natural environment. And snow is ideal for tracking; a record is impressed wherever wildlife move, hunt, feed, rest […]
Ninety per cent of our water comes from frozen water vapour as snow. And water is amazing! It continually morphs into liquid, solid ice, vapour, rain and frozen, crystalline snow. […]
Our birds need winter berries; they’re the perfect size fruit. Resident birds that don’t migrate, but remain here year-round, need food and warmth to survive the harsh winters. Most songbirds […]
For us, November is the transition from fall to winter. It can make us lazy. Animals either migrate, hibernate or insulate to survive winter’s onslaught. We’re animals too; so if […]
During the spring and summer, chlorophyll in tree leaves absorbs sunlight to transform carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates such as sugars and starch for tree energy and growth. […]
Some people think that hummingbirds catch rides on the backs of geese for their migratory trip down south. Truth is; hummingbirds are well on their way to Mexico when the […]
Allan Brooks Nature Centre
250 Allan Brooks Way
P.O. Box 20038
Vernon, BC V1T 9L4
Phone: (250) 260-4227
Email: [email protected]
ABNC is OPEN for the 2022 season! Visit us Tuesday – Sunday from 9:00 am – 3:30 pm.
Special hours on July 1st: 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Allan Brooks Nature Centre respectfully acknowledges that we are situated on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Syilx/Okanagan people.