Reading Time: 4 minutes Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the U.S.’s National Bird
Tag: Wildlife
Do Japanese Beetles taste yucky?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why else does hardly anything seem to want to eat them
Researcher assessing ripple effects of rodent disease
Reading Time: 4 minutes Protecting vital wildlife could also reduce health risks for nature-loving humans
How to read animal tracks in the snow
Reading Time: 4 minutes Animal tracks can tell what the animal was doing, but identifying the tracks can be tricky
Elk thriving in Alberta
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite increases in predators and hunting success
Do you know what thigmotaxis means? Pinnipeds do it all the time
Reading Time: 4 minutes Here are a few of my favourite words from nature
Who doesn’t want to eat a meadow vole?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Meadow Vole poop is an essential source of nutrients for grasses and other plants where they forage
Why do birds really migrate in the fall?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It isn’t so much to escape the cold but to find enough food to survive
How to be eco-friendly when mowing your lawn
Reading Time: 4 minutes Helping insects survive is more valuable than practically anything else we do to help nature
Canada Jay is the best choice to be our national bird
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Canada jay lives and breeds almost entirely in Canada, is found coast to coast to coast, and is entrenched in our entire history