Wanna know where birds get busy in Manitoba?

Wanna know where birds get busy in Manitoba? There's a map for that

From the mixed-grass Prairie habitats of the southwest through the bushy boreal forests of the Interlake and all the way up to the coastal ecosystems of Churchill, a new tool is giving bird-curious Manitobans an intimate look at where avian species get it on in the province.

The Manitoba Breeding Bird Atlas wrapped five years of surveys in 2014.

"We really got [all] four corners of the province done by hook or by crook," said atlas director Christian Artuso, a biologist with Bird Studies Canada.

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Over the course of 42,000 hours, more than 1,000 binocular-toting volunteers logged 325,000 sightings of every breeding bird species in Manitoba — and in many cases they went to great lengths to do it. Seventy-two canoe, boat, float-plane and helicopter expeditions covered remote areas across the province.That data was pooled and analyzed in recent years and was released online late last month.

The various overlays allow users to focus in on different areas to compare and contrast levels of bird biodiversity.

Want to know where and when red-tailed hawks most commonly shack up in the province every spring? A series of interactive maps show hotspots where they breed in abundance and where they don't.

That raptor is one of 312 kinds of breeding birds, including 32 at-risk species, that has its own entry, complete with facts and lessons learned over the course of the project.