Wildlife Intersections
The recent snowfall has extended PEI’s winter tracking season a bit longer. It’s always fun to come across a wildlife intersection: a...
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katemacquarrie22
Mar 19, 20233 min read
Canine Scent Posts
Dogs, Foxes, and Coyotes navigate the world far more with their noses than with their eyes or ears. Canines have 20 times more sensory...
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katemacquarrie22
Mar 13, 20233 min read
Corvid Tracks
Winter track identification isn’t limited to mammals; birds leave tracks, too! There’s one entire family of birds on PEI whose tracks...
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katemacquarrie22
Mar 8, 20232 min read
Duck Tracks & Adaptations
The lack of snow and ice this year has encouraged more than the usual numbers of ducks and geese to overwinter. I recently found signs...
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katemacquarrie22
Mar 5, 20232 min read
Meadow Vole Tracks
Here are some PEI wildlife tracks that I’m seeing more often this winter due to the lack of snow and ice: Meadow Vole (Microtus...
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katemacquarrie22
Jan 25, 20232 min read
Permian to Present 10: Otters!
Today you get two posts in one! My winter series ‘Permian to Present’ and ‘Wildlife Tracks & Sign’ intersect to tell the story of River...
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katemacquarrie22
Jan 15, 20233 min read
Canine Gaits
Wildlife tracks can tell you not only who’s been around, but also what they’ve been up to. In my last PEI tracking post, I gave you some...
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katemacquarrie22
Jan 2, 20232 min read
Freshwater Mussels
Happy New Year and welcome back to my PEI wildlife track and sign series! Let’s start the year with a group of Island animals you may...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 28, 20222 min read
Red Squirrels: Caching Mushrooms
Many Islanders preserve fresh food for winter, but this seasonal task isn’t unique to humans. Our neighbours of other species do the same...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 26, 20222 min read
Tracks and Sign: Great Blue Heron
When you think about reading PEI wildlife tracks and sign, it’s likely that mammals such as Foxes, Coyotes, Raccoons and Skunks are the...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 25, 20222 min read
Post-Fiona: Wildlife
Many of you have asked me about the effects of September's Hurricane Fiona on PEI’s wildlife. Like most things in nature there is no...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 25, 20222 min read
Tracks and Sign: Masked vs Short-tailed Shrew
Shrews are the smallest of PEI’s mammals, but what they lack in size they make up for in attitude! We have four species on the Island,...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 25, 20222 min read
Tracks and Sign: Masked Shrew
I was recently at the right place and time to find these lovely tracks from one of the Island’s smallest mammals: a Masked Shrew (Sorex...
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