• over 70,000 Dark-eyed Juncos have been counted in a single day at the Bird Observatory in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada?

Facts on topics related to Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory

Alvar

• Thirumangai Alvar, considered one of the most learned Alvar saint-poets in Hinduism, was a robber before becoming a saint?
• the Stora Alvaret, a World Heritage Site on the island of Öland, Sweden, has rich biodiversity, even though the soil mantle on this 26,000 hectare limestone barren is less than two centimeters deep?

Ontario

• Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba"?
• Ontario has more universities, with 22, than any other Canadian province?
• Ontario politician Jan Dukszta, a psychiatrist by training, took time out of his 1981 re-election campaign to treat colleague Tony Lupusella who was suffering a nervous breakdown?
• Ontario's Film Classification Act, 2005 not only governs motion picture ratings, but also legally enforces ESRB's video game ratings?
• Ontario-based musical group Family Brown has received eighteen Canadian Country Music Association awards, more than any other artist in the association's history?
• David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party?
• Joseph Yuill and his wife Margaret operated Ontario's first travelling dairy?
• Gazell Macy DuBois designed the Ontario pavilion at Expo 67 (pictured) which looked like "a mess of paper triangles or mentally disarranged envelopes"?
• although the Coronation grape has been described as having "an odd, off taste", it is the most-planted seedless table grape variety in southern Ontario?
• doubt exists about exactly where in Ontario at least two of the three known specimens of the extinct epiphytic moss Neomacounia nitida were collected in the 1860s?