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Nature Nick

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🦉Program Coordinator with Nature Alberta📜BSc Biology, University of Alberta 📝Science writer & communicator 📸Nature photographer 📍Edmonton AB, Treaty 6

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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 12h
Pectoral Sandpiper
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, a rare visitor from Asia, appeared at Miquelon Lake Provincial Park today, and I was luckily around to be able to get some good looks at it #birding #alberta #albertabirds #albertaparks
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
More Black-belled Plovers
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was nice to get a look at a Sabine’s Gull in fall plumage today
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cackling Geese, not Canada Geese - don’t let ‘em fool ya!
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gotta love Sandhill Season
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New article I wrote about my recent trip to the Burgess Shale: lowingmedia.com/poplar-magaz... #scicomm #sciencewriting #fossils #burgessshale #yoho #palaeontology
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lapland Longspurs. Not an uncommon bird in rural areas during migration, but getting a close look at them is tough.
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
American Golden and Black-bellied Plovers
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ruby-crowned Kinglets are darn cute
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Stilt Sandpiper
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Orange-crowned Warbler
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Palm Warbler. They don’t stand out as much as some other warblers, but watch for their tail-bobbing habit with those yellow undertail coverts #birds
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Black-bellied Plovers, though in the non-breeding plumage their more like Black-pitted Plovers
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A happy #WorldShorebirdDay to all who celebrate this group of birds, which are some of my favourites
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ornithomimus at @royaltyrrell with Lambeosaurus in the background. A couple classic Alberta dinosaurs #FossilFriday
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Clark’s Nutcracker in typical form
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Some warblers from this morning: Yellow-rumped, Tennessee, American Redstart, Ovenbird, Blackpoll, Northern Yellow
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Blue-headed Vireo, a tough bird to photograph as they always seem to be hiding in the trees, and never stop moving
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Black bear along the Icefields Parkway in Banff
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Merlin munching on a dragonfly
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Bombus ternarius I think
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Lots of Compton Tortoiseshells out there lately
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Wilson’s Snipe
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A blog post I wrote for the Royal Alberta Museum about the natural history of the Alberta badlands royalalbertamuseum.ca/node/1971
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The Badlands Aren’t So Bad | Royal Alberta Museum
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Upland Sandpiper, one our most unique shorebirds. Been ages since I’ve seen one.
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Some recent butterflies
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Least Flycatcher making its nest
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Tiger beetles: Oblique-lined and Boreal Long-lipped
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A skipper I was in Banff a couple weeks ago. American Branded Skipper I think?
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Common Yellowthroat, a real wetland warbler
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A couple American Badgers I was lucky enough to see along a dirt road yesterday
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Last weekend I found a bunch of Western Tailed-Blues and Greenish Blues chilling in a mud puddle near Johnson Lake in Banff
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Went for a drive last week through the foothills south of Cochrane and saw no less than six Mountain Bluebirds.
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Field Crescent, a butterfly of the mountains
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Least Sandpiper
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Humans: “Butterflies are such lovely, delicate creatures.” Butterflies: “Get away from my pile of poop or I’ll fight you.”
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Black-crowned Night Heron in the daytime
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Rock Wren. These little things are fairly common in the badlands, but getting them to sit still long enough for a photo can be tough
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Mountain Bluebirds are easy and fun to spot at Dinosaur Provincial Park #albertaparks #nature #birdwatching
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Getting muddy with some Ruddy Turnstones
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Sabine’s Gull, a cool little rarity for Alberta
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Northern Shrike River on the Alberta prairies
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Horned Lark
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Western Kingbird, certainly a regal species
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It was a challenge to get half-decent look at this Brown Thrasher, but I was excited to see it
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Spotted Towhee, a large and impressive sparrow of western North America
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Lark Sparrow, a cool little songbird of the grasslands
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Pronghorn near Coronation, Alberta
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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Pachyrhinosaurs lakustai at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. The skull is a cast of the holotype, I think, with a reconstructed frill, and the body is original fossils, all from the Pipestone Creek bonebed west of Grande Prairie, a place I used to spent a lot of time at #FossilFriday
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