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Excerpt from The Courage of Birds: And the Often Surprising Ways They Survive Winter

Award-winning birder and acclaimed writer Pete Dunne explores how birds in North America have adapted to survive the challenges of the winter season 

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Wildlife Wednesday: what pikas — and their poop — can teach us about climate change

Plus: orcas are eating a toxic diet, southern birds are moving in on northern birds thanks to climate change, North Atlantic right whale population is steadying, and red swamp crayfish are showing up unwanted in Nova Scotia

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Wildlife Wednesday: “milestone achievement” — Bhutan records a nearly 40 per cent increase in snow leopard numbers

Plus: city lights make bird eyes smaller, killer whales play “pass the porpoise,” Atlantic walrus more at risk than ever, and grizzly bears besieged by forestry roads

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Wildlife Wednesday: the vagrant sea eagle boosting North America’s economy

Plus: Canadian scientist witnesses sperm whale birth, wildlife get that shrinking feeling, migratory birds fly ever higher, and teeth tell time (sort of)

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Wildlife Wednesday: Northern map turtles “breathe” through their skin to survive winter ice

Plus: caribou on camera in Wapusk National Park, black bears take over Yellowknife and large-taloned bird ancestry revealed

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Wildlife Wednesday: bottlenose dolphins use “baby talk” to communicate with their young

Plus: investigating a mysterious golden eagle flight, rescuing abandoned piping plover eggs, running North America’s largest bug farm, and more.

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Wildlife Wednesday: new technique produces much needed female wood bison calves at Toronto Zoo

Plus: “bees of the sea” are pollinating underwater plants, snow geese are bouncing back hard, Greenland sharks are appearing in unlikely waters and birds are proving smarter than ever

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Collision course: Making Canada’s cities more bird-friendly

How one grassroots organization in Toronto makes our glass landscapes less deadly for birds.

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Canada‘s largest EVER private conservation project

Also: Climate changed restaurant menus, sandhill cranes in New Brunswick, bears waking up from their slumber — and a pesky woodpecker hits Canada where it hurts

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Remote paradise: The wonder of B.C.’s Triangle Island

Off the northwest tip of Vancouver Island, an isolated speck of “inhospitable” land is home and sanctuary to millions of seabirds

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The mysterious 500-kilometre, 20-year odyssey of Wolf 57

Plus: a caribou’s dinner, avian “flyways,” what astronauts can learn from squirrels — and blue whale tongue-eating orcas

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What we learn from birds with Patrick Nadeau

Episode 24

The new president of Birds Canada gives us an inside look at Canada’s largest citizen science movement

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What’s in a name? Problematic names in the world of wildlife

Wildlife names that could use a rebrand

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In the company of crows

Our feathered friends are increasingly calling our urban centres home. Why crows in particular are nesting among us.

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A Canada jay in flight with outstretched wings in southwestern B.C.

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How the Canada jay got its name back

For decades, the gregarious bird of the northern forest was simply called the “grey jay.” Now, ornithologists are once again embracing the jay’s nationality. 

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How citizen scientists are helping to protect migratory birds

Conserving at-risk species is difficult when they’re constantly crossing international borders, but digital tools are making it easier than ever to track feathered globetrotters

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Rise of the synanthropes

Synanthropes: wild animals that live near and benefit from humans. An exploration of why some species thrive among us, and how urban planners are managing their increasing numbers. 

grizzly bear on train tracks in Banff National Park

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Dinner is served

Wildlife is figuring out that human infrastructure helps with the hunt

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Vertical samples of the winning images of Canadian Geographic's Annual Photo Competition

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Announcing the winners of the 33rd Annual Photo Competition

The best of the best images from Canadian Geographic’s 2018 competition

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Environment

The fate of the Fraser River delta

A booming economy, a thriving community, a healthy environment — can Vancouver have it all?

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Sable Island: It’s for the birds

The majority of bird species sighted on the Atlantic island are “vagrants” far outside their ordinary range 

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