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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 books is to share true

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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 can be hard to spot.

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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. Trumpeter swans breed in the

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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 signs for pumpkin-flavoured lattes 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 beautiful Swainson’s Hawk can be

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Don’t Bat an Eye!

AH! BAT! You might have this reaction if you ran into one of Alberta’s flying, nocturnal critters like the big brown bat or the little brown bat. Poor bats have

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