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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 · Nov 15

Hello Bluesky. I photograph, write about, and talk about nature. Birds, bugs, fossils, and whatever else I think is cool.

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 2d

It’s Tree Sparrow time

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North American big cats of the late Pleistocene: Panthera and Smilodon. At least one and possibly two pantherine have been found in Alberta, as have some Smilodon fragments from near Medicine Hat, which seem to be at the northwestern extent of this cat’s range #FossilFriday

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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 7d

Hooded Crows chasing off a Common Buzzard. Corvids don’t tolerate the presence of raptors like this, and become especially bold and confident in groups

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 8d

Little Egret: small but elegant

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 8d

Always fun to witness the Arctic geese migrating

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 12d

Common Kingfisher

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 13d

Lambeosaurus magnicristatus at @royaltyrrell The crest might look vaguely hook-shaped, but other specimens of this species tell us the back part had actually broken off, and the crest was more of a forward-bending dome #FossilFriday #dinosaur #palaeontology #alberta #fossils

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 14d

Juvenile Red-backed Shrike

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 15d

American Tree Sparrows, some actually in trees

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 16d

Cretan Wall Lizard

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 16d

Rough-legged Hawk near The Lake this morning

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 18d

Violet Carpenter Bee I think. Either way a lovely insect

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 19d

Yellow-legged Gull, the common gull of the Mediterranean

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · 19d

Just got back from a great trip to the island of Crete in Greece, and saw lots of cool stuff. Here’s a Blue Rock-Thrush on Spinalonga Island. It’s not actually a thrush, though, but a type of chat

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · Sep 26

The lower jaw of Plesiadapis, a small vaguely squirrel-like animal related to primates. This specimen was found in central Alberta dating back to about 8.6 million years after the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct #FossilFriday

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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · Sep 24

Common Mergansers going over a beaver dam. Most are juveniles, as you can tell by their clear eyes. But can you spot the dark-eyed adult female?

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · Sep 24

Theropod dinosaur feeding on a hapless mammal

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · Sep 22

Meadowhawk on a nice beige background

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · Sep 21

My latest article- and probably most pedantic, but hopefully it’s of interest. The new magazine issue is lovely as always lowingmedia.com/poplar-magaz... #alberta #wildlife #nature #naturewriting

Prairie Dogs and Proper Names - by Nick Carter

A lot of my time, both professionally and personally, is spent talking to people about animals, plants, and other things in nature. Do it enough and eventually you’ll encounter something that causes a...

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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · Sep 13

LeConte’s Sparrow

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · Sep 13

This evening I went to check out the Little Blue Heron, normally a species of the southern USA through South America, that's been hanging out north of Edmonton lately.

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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · Sep 12

Regaliceratops at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Despite the wild bony features on the frill and tiny orbital horns, it was more closely related to chasmosaurines like Triceratops instead of centrosaurines like, well, Centrosaurus #FossilFriday #dinosaur #alberta #palaeontology #fossils

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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s #WorldShorebirdDay I love shorebirds and here’s one, a Baird’s Sandpiper

Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · Sep 6

Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton

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Nature Nick @naturenickpics.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Pleistocene camel Camelops hesternus once lived on the cool, windy plains of Alberta during the Ice Age where it lived alongside bison, mammoths, horses, and other such creatures #FossilFriday #camel #Alberta #IceAge #yeg

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