Wildlife

Long-eared Owl

      Recently, a long-eared owl underwent one of AIWC’s first onsite surgeries in several years to repair an exposed fracture. The vets are

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Scared Skunk

Scared Skunk is AIWC’s first children’s book and the third book Michelle and Denver Suttie have written for an animal charity. The goal of these

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Muskrats

Hey, what’s that little, brown, furry critter swimming around ponds and lakes? A muskrat!  Adults can only weigh up to 1.5 kilograms, so these little pond-dwellers

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Trumpeter Swans

Photo credit:  Parks Canada You may have noticed big white birds in lakes and ponds recently who aren’t normally there. These birds are trumpeter swans.

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Heading South

  In Canada, we accept the end of summer when we seethe leaves changing colour, the days getting shorter, frost coating windshields over night and

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Fall Migration Detour…

It is very common to see a Swainson’s Hawk searching for prey over Alberta prairie fields or perched atop fence posts next to them. The

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