Posts Tagged: Alberta

Mule deer take on winter by budgeting their energy — a meticulous balance of daily expenditure which allows them the best chance at survival over a long winter with very limited food.

The snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus), characterized by its large “snowshoe like” hind feet is a master of disguise.

Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) are specially adapted to walk on top of snow with their big, splaying, fur-covered feet that function as snowshoes. The advantage of these specialized feet in catching their preferred prey, the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus), is debatable due to the snowshoe hare’s own similar adaptation for floating on the snow.

Mountain goats are “white walkers” even when winter isn’t coming. They keep their white coats all year round. At Fiera Biological we study a population of mountain goats in west central Alberta and for part of that study, we are using remote cameras to better understand how predators (and their typical “not mountain goats” prey) use the habitat surrounding the cliff habitat that the goats are using.

If you have utilized any type of digital mapping tool, you may have heard the technical term ‘LiDAR’,…

Spring has sprung here at Fiera, and so, like everyone, our thoughts turn to bogs. What are they? How do they work?

When most people think of wildlife habitat, what often comes to mind are the particular resource requirements that…

Fiera Biological recently hosted one of North America’s top wildlife trackers, David Moskowitz, to run a two-day field-based…

Wetlands perform a wide array of important functions, some highly beneficial from an ecological standpoint, as well as…

You have already heard us sing the praises of incorporating natural and semi-natural assets (such as wetlands, trees,…