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The great horned owl is the provincial bird of Alberta. Alberta is a landlocked province within Canada, bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the North-West Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana to the south. [1]
In 2012 the Government of Alberta gave $5,205,000 and increased that to $5,305,000 in 2013 when the Government of Canada decreased their funding to $0. [3] A 2014 ABMI report commissioned by the Canadian Oilsands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), one of ABMI's stakeholders, showed a decline of 20 per cent among bird species in northern Alberta. The ...
Morinville, Alberta - ferruginous hawk, Buteo regalis [15] Mulgrave-et-Derry, Quebec - cerulean warbler, Setophaga cerulea; Olds, Alberta - great horned owl, Bubo virginianus [16] Peace River, Alberta - Canada goose, Branta canadensis; Penhold, Alberta - northern harrier, Circus cyaneus [17] Peterborough, Ontario - great blue heron, Ardea ...
Canada's 15 terrestrial ecozones are further subdivided into 53 ecoprovinces, 194 ecoregions, and 1,027 ecodistricts. [13]Canada is characterized by a wide range of both meteorologic and geological regions that are divided into fifteen terrestrial and five marine ecozones, [14] such as the forests of British Columbia and Central Canada, the prairies of Western Canada, the tundra of Northern ...
The List of Wildlife Species at Risk currently has more than 800 entries for Canadian wild life species considered vulnerable; including 363 classified as endangered species, —190 threatened species, —235 special concern, and 22 extirpated (no longer found in the wild). [1]
Provinces, state and territories Sub-national animals and birds of Pakistan Picture: Islamabad Capital Territory: Rhesus macaque Rose-ringed parakeet: Balochistan: Dromedary camel MacQueen's bustard: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Kabul markhor White-crested kalij pheasant: The Punjab: Urial Peafowl: Sindh: Sindh ibex Sind sparrow: Gilgit–Baltistan ...
The fauna of Canada consist of approximately 200 mammal species, over 460 native bird species, 43 amphibian species, 43 reptile species, and 1,200 fish species. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The biology survey of Canada cites that there are approximately 55,000 species of insects and 11,000 species of mites and spiders.
The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states, followed by the western meadowlark as the state bird of six states. The District of Columbia designated a district bird in 1938. [ 4 ] Of the five inhabited territories of the United States , American Samoa and Puerto Rico are the only ones without territorial birds.