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Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · Nov 19
I'm Chris Fisher - a wildlife biologist, photographer, travel guide, writer & podcaster.
I hope to use this platform to increase engagement, understanding & passion for #Nature; as an outlet for my #creativity; to improve my #scicomm delivery.
Composite image of Chris Fisher's photography including a rhinoceros, common loon, roseate spoonbills, barred owl, red fox and short-horned lizard.
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One of the great head scratchers of Alberta mammals is the trapping of a single Gray Fox at Fort Chipewyan in 1950. None have been seen since and they are pretty much unknown in MT and the 🇨🇦 prairie provinces! #mammals
A historical write-up on the alberta gray fox record. The iNaturalist distribution may of gray foxes extends through much of the US - but not much at all in Canada and Montana. A red arrow indicate the location of the fox record in northern Alberta.
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Today's regularly scheduled 10am Peregrine attack on the Montrose Snowy Owls. Third day in a row they've done this dance. 11/23/2025
#Birds #Owls #Falcons
Peregrine swooping in on a Snowy Owl flying just off the concrete pier. lake Michigan and the shore in the background. Peregrine swooping in on a Snowy Owl flying just off the concrete pier. lake Michigan in the background. Peregrine flying away after swooping in on a Snowy Owl flying just off the concrete pier, lake Michigan in the background. The falcon has some Snowy Owl down in its banded right claw. Two Peregrine falcons swooping around for another go at a flying Snowy Owl that is looking to land on the pier. Lake Michigan, the shore and former Edgewater hotel building in the background.
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Snowy Owls are the most sought-after winter bird in #AB. They have started to arrive, even beating the first lasting snows of the winter. Snowies tend to stand out at these times, but will try to find whatever snow there is and try to blend in. #birds
A Snowy Owl stands on a small patch of snow in a large brown field In the background a large truck drives past.
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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From what I have been able to understand - of the 296 American Dippers that have ever been banded in #AB - 182 were banded in 1975-76 around the RB Miller Biological Station in Sheep River PP. That must have been a classic time!!
An American Dipper stands on a small rock surrounded by water in a stream.
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Owls are here 😁😊🥰
#birds 🌿
Huge white owl with black barred feathers on her breast and bright yellow eyes. She is perched on a wooden power pole.
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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While most songbirds have left the Rocky Mountains for the freezing times ahead - one special exception remains. The antics of American Dippers are so enjoyable, they make up for the lack of many other #birds.
November 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The northernmost Red-tailed Hawks on the continent are also the darkest. They are straggling in snow free areas a bit north of where they normally are at this time of year. #AB #birds
A dark morph Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk, flies against a blue sky.
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Every November, keen-eyed #AB birders spot a few Pacific Loons as they make their way from tundra breeding ponds to the west coast. The arrive just a the ice starts to form on our lakes and then move on to the salty seas. #birds
A Pacific Loon swims in an opening in the ice on a wetland.
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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These White-tailed Deer bucks look nice and perfect in early clean snows. #mammals
A white-tailed deer buck with a large antler rack stands in shallow snow as a light snow is falling.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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#Wisdom is back!
The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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New video of Wolves pulling up baiting crab traps in #BC might show evidence of tool use! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
B.C. wolves pull up crab traps to get at bait
In this video footage from researchers Kyle Artelle and Paul Paquet, sea wolves in central B.C. are seen pulling up crab traps — in what researchers say may be the first use of tools by the species.
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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It's getting closer to Ptarmigan Ptime.
White-tailed Ptarmigan will drop down from the highest alpine areas of the #AB Rockies to overwinter in the subalpine where they can find willows. Likewise Willow Ptarmigan will move into #AB from harsher northern areas. #birds
A White-tailed Ptarmigan, an all white chicken-like bird, stands on the snow near tiny branches. A Willow Ptarmigan, an all white chicken-like bird with black tail feathers, stands on the snow near a willow bush.
November 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there.

💩🧊🧪

By @chazhutton.com
Wombat architecture critics. Two wombats see a cube-shaped house and one comments: Well that looks like shit.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Plains Bison are long gone from most of the 🇨🇦 grasslands - but their past-presence remains. Glacial erratic scratching rocks and grown-over wallows of sign of their past supremacy. #mammals
Plains Bison head and shoulders looking off to the right with yellow grasses and green vegetation in the background. A glacial erratic rock lays on the prairies with a low area around its border. A wide angle image of the grasslands with a subtle grown-over bison wallow.
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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everywhere RFK goes he should be confronted with so many duck noises that he develops a case of this
Anatidaephobia ; the fear that somewhere, somehow a duck is watching you, from the Far Side
November 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Bighorn Sheep rams are really quite visible right about now. Head to the #AB protected areas mountains and they are conspicuously gathering and doing their fall thing! #mammals
The head and neck of a Bighorn Sheep ram, showing a thick neck of breeding time.
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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With little snow on the northern plains, there is less urgency of migration. Rough-legged Hawks are making their way south, but many remain hovering and perching above goo hunting areas. #birds #AB
A Rough-legged Hawk perches on a cross beam of a three phase power pole.
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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A little more than a month ago, our group spotted 4-5 River Otters in Spruce River, not far from this very spot!
Three River Otters lift their heads out of a northern river.
November 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Thanks - it was chilly so this big widow wasn’t in any rush to get into hiding.
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Nice to see that the 🇨🇦Western ‘Black’ Widows have not given up on their fall activities as of yet. Still getting above freezing as daytime highs. #bugs
A western widow spider clings to its messy web in the entrance of a burrow.
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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55 years ago today was an infamous attempt to blow up a beached whale.

Please enjoy this piece about it by Andrew Thaler, which remains one of my favorite pieces of writing about science communication.

www.vice.com/en/article/t...

@drandrewthaler.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌎 #SciComm
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
My first whale video came in the form of a VHS tape mailed to me by a stranger from the internet.
www.vice.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades?

Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes

The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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in 1929, biologist Dewey Soper successfully completed his 6 year/30,000 mile quest for the nesting grounds of the Blue (Snow) Goose. This area is now a Migratory Bird Sanctuary. #birds
A small flock of Snow Geese including several dark forma - known as Blue Geese, fly against a pale blue sky.
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Snow Buntings do not need to wait for the white stuff to time their southern journey. The first few have arrived to blend in nicely with our autumn brown landscapes. #birds #Ab
A Snow Bunting, a songbird with white black and brown plumage perches on a barbed wire.
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Nicely done!
joeinaustralia.bsky.social Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 14d
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
by Queen

Is this a real bird
Bombycilidae
Caught in a photo
High on a rowan tree
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see…
fisherspeaks.bsky.social Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · 15d
I just spotted our first Bohemian Waxwing of the fall. Waxwings are calendar birds, not only for the pin-up looks, but their annual appearances and disappearances turn the pages of our seasons. #birds
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM