Wildlife Education Program

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Holy Crow!

They might be perched on trees, electricity wires, housetops or maybe filling the sky in swarms of “murders.” Crows seem to be everywhere! But how

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Pelicans

In light of AIWC’s recent pelican patient, it became clear to me that many people don’t realize we have pelicans in Alberta. That’s totally ok,

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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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