Hiking in Canada: Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park, Alberta

Experience the majesty of Canada’s badlands! Hike Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park’s unmarked trails through prairie grasslands and eroded coulees.   Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provin...

Canadian Mammals: Columbian Ground Squirrel

Perky and agile, the Columbian ground squirrel lives in colonies, inhabits alpine clearings, and hibernates for more than half the year.   May’s mammal of the month is the Columbian ground ...

Canadian Birds: Canada Goose

The big, handsome Canada goose dabbles for food, mates for life, talks with loud honks and flies the skies in energy-conserving V-formations called skeins.   During the past week, I’ve heard Ca...

Australian Birds: Laughing Kookaburra

An Aussie icon, the laughing kookaburra greets the dawn with maniacal chortles and flies ritualized trapeze flights to defend its home group’s territory.   This week’s featured bird i...