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At Joshua Tree National Park, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610909617083-9RWAZ5L506W4O05QOSL9/Web-17.jpg Photography A crowd of amateur astronomers gaze up at the night sky/Milky Way at Lion's Head, Ontario, Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/2b22871e-993f-4bb1-8274-33835d5734d5/1G8A3126.jpg Photography A flock of Dunlin fly over Roberts Bank, a delta in Vancouver, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610749016496-QX6VE888RE6MN3E650ID/GWC-Ambassador-19.jpg Photography A semipalmated plover chick snuggles under the wing of its parent. Taken on Middleton Island, Alaska https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610910391974-KI6SITML1W9QAC8M2EKK/GWC-Ambassador-36.jpg Photography A FLAP Canada volunteer kneels before White-throated Sparrow, writing down information about its fatal collision with the nearby building. In Toronto, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610906763022-CJQG0GT3ZQXTC5ZFATPY/Web-37.jpg Photography A FLAP Canada volunteer captures a stunned Ovenbird in downtown Toronto, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610906766066-Z0RYU24HH6DN1TX9RGDD/Web-43.jpg Photography A window in downtown Toronto with bird-friendly decals. 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Montreal, Quebec, Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610909858455-02ZF0A21L275GFPVFIKR/1G8A9056.jpg Photography A raccoon peers out from underneath a house in Toronto, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610910389368-VYA33PY4AIFRPNHGPT9I/GWC-Ambassador-26.jpg Photography A piping plover sits on its nest, surrounded by a protective fence. One of the efforts to protect this endangered species in Ontario. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610908754795-5Q305IKS2QBQZ6RHMKB1/Web-11.jpg Photography A red fox sits in the snow, peering at the camera. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610908755340-G4WZY58WYP75NNAZUYIX/Web-8.jpg Photography An Eastern Screech-Owl sleeping in a tree nook. 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In West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610909935061-XSKVLJYYB6PEGQ06JLUW/GWC-Ambassador-40.jpg Photography A crowd gathers to observe and photograph the resident beaver at Stanley Park's Lost Lagoon, who seems unfazed by the attention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610935032954-N20ZIZHCX00F6DXAD48G/GWC-Ambassador-27.jpg Photography An array of pinned beetles in the Royal Ontario Museum entomology collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610909793385-QSZ34KE8OJ0FOZDT0A9P/Web-64.jpg Photography A family peers through a spotting scope on Delta's 2019 Christmas Bird Count for Kids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610908755342-SN27J1UA0I4GX2UJ7LCT/Web-12.jpg Photography A flock of migratory Western Sandpipers descend onto the mudflats of the Fraser Delta, British Columbia, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610908755948-GFS7Y22PEAI6CTB30E2I/Web-16.jpg Photography Morning mist rises from the Appalachian Mountains. In Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610908754601-0C3SSVOEPH1AD88UMPBM/Web-4.jpg Photography A spring peeper camouflaged on a tree. In Montreal, Quebec, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610908696061-UMYL7OIOBWVF9RNF1IIT/Web-53.jpg Photography A Canada goose defends their young under their wing. Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610909617876-HWZ26H7HK7DXUAYSNHQT/Web-19.jpg Photography A self portrait under the Milky Way with the Northern Lights in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610909636454-7BHQZVNE876W6ZDT7DXD/Web-3.jpg Photography A crowded black-legged kittiwake colony on Middleton Island, Alaska. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610909616005-KL6KQSJLIWG4LAVOFC8U/Web-21.jpg Photography Nature walk attendees peer at a spittlebug using their hand lenses. Toronto, Ontario https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6001f05e2cf68c2f0ceb85a6/1610908696060-J7VXKJNZLIXOY4FIKDON/Web-54.jpg Photography An osprey screeches at a passerby, defending their nest. 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