Birds of Alberta with Chris Fisher
Episodes
Killdeer
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Killdeer are birds that are aggressively tolerant with a parenting instinct that is so strong it can override many of the stressors that they inevitab...
California Gull
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Our Alberta landscape has changed dramatically in the last century. We’ve built croplands, reservoirs, landfills, industrial parks, and sprawling su...
Merlin
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Merlins are pretty well-known residents of our cities where they thrill us by zooming overhead and preying on swarms of sparrows, finches and waxwings...
Bohemian & Cedar Waxwings
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The great looks of Bohemian and Cedar Waxwings pair the French dynasty pompadour with the eye make-up of an Egyptian princess - but for Alberta birder...
American White Pelican
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
American White Pelicans are large birds stand apart from all other birds in the province. They are attention-grabbing, in-your-face, conversation star...
Loggerhead and Northern Shrikes
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Northern and Loggerhead Shrike are some of our most dynamic songbirds. They come dressed as Mexican Wrestlers and bear the brutality of a MMA fighter....
American Robin
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
American Robins are the Spark bird that ignites within us an acknowledgement of the natural world around us and provides an intimacy that simmers with...
Snowy Owl
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Snowy Owl is a bird unlike no other in Alberta. Known for both its unequalled cuteness and rawness in tooth and claw, but there is something else ...
Trumpeter Swan
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alberta’s triumphant Trumpeter Swans have come to represent through the past century a story that blends conservation, admiration and beauty to all ...
American Dipper
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The American Dipper puts on an exhibit of unequal energy - among all our birds. Their robust personality, instagrammable habitat choice and accessibil...
Canada Jay
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Canada Jays are perfectly Canadian. Low key, soft spoken, resilient and enduring. They are a companion with whom we share a landscape and they serve a...
Snow Goose
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Snow Geese are exceptional birds in Alberta and those of us lucky enough to experience their erratic cacophony will long remember their snowy, showy s...
Common Loon
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here in Canada, the Common Loon is a singular bird that has migrated from our distant remote northern areas into the very heart of Canadiana. It magic...
Western Painted Turtle
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Western Painted Turtles are our our ultimate summer souls and wild sun bathers – soaking up the rays only in our sunniest and southernmost areas. Bu...
Calliope Hummingbird
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Calliope Hummingbird is a legendary species our Alberta list - not for the frequency it is seen, but how its story mesmerizes our concept of birdo...
Yellow Warbler
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How lucky are we that that our most common warbler is also one of our most incandescent? Yellow Warblers are special. They are our most visible wood w...
Great Blue Heron
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Great Blue Herons are well known birds that defy convention. Sometimes solitary, sometimes social; piscivores with a taste of mice, muskrats and salam...
Red-winged Blackbird
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Red-winged Blackbirds are certainly amongst the most common birds we have in Alberta. They know how to put on a show for everyone to enjoy whether the...
Osprey
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Decades ago, we had to search out Osprey in Alberta's northern lakes. Nowadays, they are a daily summer sight in Calgary and throughout the waterways ...
Song Sparrow
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Song Sparrow is perfectly named, having a tune that tops the charts on Alberta summer soundtrack every May. And even though most Albertan know not...
Peregrine Falcon
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Peregrine Falcon was a symbol of the conservation movement of the 1980s and since that time - and through its hard won recovery, it became a symbo...
Canvasback
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our wetlands host mesmerizing crowds of life that mingle and mix and that fight and flux. But among those bobbing birds, there is a standout without e...
Wood Frog
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s no better time to get the feels for our Wood Frog than in April - appropriately known by the Cree as ayîkipisime the month of the Frog...
Red-tailed Hawk
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Red-tailed Hawks are our everywhere, every day raptor in our province and in our lives . They express the soul of Alberta while soaring, screamin...
White-throated Sparrow
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The white-throated sparrow has a singing voice as iconic to Canada as Gordon Lightfoot. But in spite of its acoustic imprint onto our lives, there rem...
Mountain Bluebird
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No matter how many times you seen it before, that first flash of blue in the spring always catches the eye and triggers a jolt of adrenaline. Mountain...
Common Goldeneye
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While we have ducks and geese that are well-known, loved (and hated) elsewhere, there is one duck that Albertans may know better than anyone else. The...
Sharp-tailed Grouse
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Alberta, the first true colours of spring are purple and yellow. These are the colours that flowering prairie crocus display when they emerge from ...
Whooping Crane
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The legendary story of our Whooping Crane, involves Alberta parks, Alberta scientists, and Alberta birds. And while few of us have ever seen one in th...
Northern Flicker
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alberta's relationship with the Northern Flicker is complex. As one of our most visible woodpeckers, it is a welcome daily sight and sound in our sout...
Horned Lark
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Horned Larks are Alberta's ultimate minimalists, content to make their livings in our most barren landscapes. But in return, they provide plenty of th...
Black-billed Magpie
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we will be discussing one of the most ubiquitous, beautiful and well-loved (but also well-hated) Birds of Alberta, the Black billed Ma...
Great-horned Owl
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For our first episode of the BoA podcast, we explore Alberta's special relationship with our provincial bird, the Great-horned Owl. Hosted on Acast. S...