A kermode bear roams the Great Bear Rainforest along British Columbia’s coast. (Photo:Daisy Gilardini/daisygilardini.com)

A black bear glares at the camera in the pouring rain in Port Hardy, Vancouver Island, B.C. (Photo: Anthony Bucci/@abucci_photography)

An osprey brings sticks to repair its nest in Pitt Lake, B.C. (Anthony Bucci/@abucci_photography)

A blue jay hovers above a feeder in Pontiac, Que. (Photo: Harry Foster)

A pack of wolves makes its way through the snow in British Columbia’s Skeena River Valley. (Photo: Richard Eckert/reckert.smugmug.com)

Apart from an occasional yawn, a lynx sits nearly motionless just after dawn near Blachford Lake, north of the East Arm of Great Slave Lake, N.W.T. (Photo: Benjamin Poudou)

A gang of elk gather during the fall rut in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alta. (Ryan Peruniak/ryanperuniak.com)

A moose in the snow-covered forest in Gaspésie, Que. (Photo: Éric Deschamps/natureenvue.com)

A pod of narwhal surfaces along the floe edge near Arctic Bay, Nunavut. (Photo: Michelle Valberg/michellevalberg.com)