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Land, Life and Legacy: Conservation in Alberta’s Capital Region

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This YouTube video was produced by The Nature Conservancy of Canada.

The Capital Conservation Region around Edmonton is a patchwork of forests, wetlands, grasslands, and rivers — beautiful, diverse, and under threat. Thanks to generous land donors and easement partners, these special places are being conserved for wildlife and people alike. We can’t do it alone. Your support helps keep these landscapes thriving for generations to come.

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Song: Write Your Own Story

Artist: BalloonPlanet

Album: Write Your Own Story

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is Canada’s leading national land conservation organization. Since 1962, NCC and our

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Black Phoebe: Watcher by the Water

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

The handsome little Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans) is a common and conspicuous flycatcher of the western Americas, typically seen near the water, singly or in pairs. Like its close relative, the Eastern Phoebe, it perches in an erect posture and frequently pumps its tail in an up-and-down motion.

Black Phoebes associate closely with water, whether it be slow-flowing streams, rushing rapids, ephemeral or permanent ponds, ocean and lake shores, irrigation ditches, or even water tanks.

The Black Phoebe belongs to the largest bird family in the Americas, the Tyrannidae, or

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Rough-legged Hawk: Welcome in Winter

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

The Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus) is a raptor that breeds in Arctic and high subarctic regions around the world, migrating to more southerly regions each year to delight intrepid winter birders. The name “Rough-legged” refers to this raptor’s fully feathered legs, a feature shared by the Ferruginous Hawk and Golden Eagle.

Besides its feathered legs, the Rough-legged Hawk also has a noticeably small beak. These features illustrate a biological principle known as Allen’s Rule, which states that the appendages of endothermic (warm-blooded) animals in colder climates are relatively smaller than

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