Tag: Alberta

It was a relatively warm day in the middle of an Edmonton winter when a coyote sprang out of its den as Sage Raymond approached. A master’s student in ecology...

City planners may help improve and maintain amphibian diversity by keeping the sometimes sparse urban wetland areas connected. New research tracking the diversity of frogs and salamanders in downtown Calgary,...

Biologists have returned 20 burrowing owls to the wild in southeastern Alberta. The owls were taken from their nests last winter and raised at the Calgary Zoo to help recover...

Occasional, loud bursts of noise are disrupting threatened songbird species in the Canadian prairies. Oil pumpjacks are found all over southeastern Alberta prairie lands, which is also home to many...

It was raining when researchers fit a female wolf with an Argos radio tracking collar in 1991—one of the first times the technology had been used in such a way....

Caribou in western Canada are losing habitat due to accelerating forest loss from logging, oil and gas development and fire. New research tracking the rate of disturbance to caribou forest...

Woodland mountain caribou in western Alberta change their yearly migration behavior during the winter months in an attempt to cope with increasing habitat loss to energy development. But while the...

In bear country, it’s not uncommon to notice the evidence of a bear rubbing against a tree, even if you don’t catch it in the act. Claw marks may be...

Bison have been reintroduced to Waterton Lakes National Park after being removed due to a massive wildfire in southern Alberta in 2017.  A herd of bison (Bison bison) were moved...

For wolf packs in Idaho and Alberta, immigration from other areas doesn’t compensate for their losses. “There was very little immigration, even though harvest was removing individuals,” said Sarah Bassing,...