SNOW GOOSE - 60 to 120 thousand Snow Goose migrate from Wrangel Island Russia to winter and feed in Washington's Skagit / Fraser Delta, salt marsh plants, and winter green crops on private farmed lands. This event provides great birding and photographic opportunity. Snow Geese mate for life and fly together in multi-generation family groups.
Wildlife managers and local landowners continue are challenged in the development of impacts on farming, responsible hunting and viewing of these birds. Washington State permits Snow Goose Quality Hunts.
Timber Wolf - Alaska
A lone Timber Wolf on the Brooks River, Alaska. She scours the banks looking for fish tidbids left over from the Grizzly Bears who fish this river.
Alaska is home to the largest remaining population of gray wolves in the United States. Some 7,000 to 11,000 wolves roam the state in habitats as diverse as barren arctic tundra and lush temperate rainforests. In Alaska as elsewhere, wolves play an essential role in maintaining healthy prey populations and biodiversity in the ecosystems they inhabit. They are also vital to the state’s tourism economy. People from all over the world come to Alaska for the rare opportunity to see a wild wolf.
The Western Purple Martin - BC
The endangered Western Purple Martin filmed and photographed in Ladysmith harbour British Columbia, one of the few B.C. nesting sites for the endangered Purple Martins and is the largest on Vancouver Island.
The Purple Martin is the largest of North American Swallows
