The principal flock of whooping cranes spend the summer on the grasslands of Saskatchewan and winter in Texas. As the current millennium began, the flock numbered only 187 members, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Although captive breeding programs have proved successful, the whoo...
Sage grouse once numbered in the thousands in Canada, if not the hundreds of thousands, with a sweeping range of 100,000 square kilometres. Today, there are fewer than 100 in Canada. Their range in southeast Alberta and southw...
Investigate the Western Red Lily, the floral emblem of Saskatchewan. [P] The Sprague’s Pipit [P] The black-tailed prairie dog [P] [P] The black-footed ferret and its adaptations for survival in a prairie habitat. [P] The Loggerhead Shrike [P] The kangaroo rat and its ...
We tested this ecological trap hypothesis in a three﹜ear study, involving 379 Burrowing Owl pairs, across the agricultural landscapes of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. In support of the hypothesis, Burrowing Owls did prefer to settle in breeding home‐ranges that contained a higher proportion ...
Chihuahua and Saskatchewan.The Great Plains are home to more than 20,000 animal species. More than 100 of the 20,000 species are found only in the Great Plains (including black-footed ferret). Black-footed ferrets are key indicators of healthy ecosystems as they help manage prairie dog popula...
In particular, animals must retain or acquire many of their behavioural abilities to increase the likelihood of survival upon release into the wild. This study investigated the behavioural development of critically endangered kaki (black stilt: Himantopus novaezelandiae ) chicks reared without live ...
The origin of an understudied hybrid population of poisonous frogs—highly endangered colorful animals that live deep in the Colombian jungle—is the result of natural breeding and not caused by wildlife traffickers moving them, a University of Saskatchewan (USask) study shows. ...