Maggie Parisé Photography

08/12/2026

07/31/2026

A beautiful cinnamon bear standing. Swipe for more details 👉

07/29/2026

Grassland National Park is home to more than 20 endangered species ! Here’s five of them 👉

Once a common sight across the Canadian prairies, the Burrowing Owl has lost over 90% of its Canadian population since 1990. Today, fewer than 500 breeding pairs remain — mostly in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

The grasslands they depend on have nearly disappeared. What wasn’t converted to farmland was degraded by fire suppression, pesticide use, and the disappearance of prairie dogs, whose burrows the owls nest in.

🔴 Status : Endangered (SARA)


The American Badger is the only badger species in North America and one of the most important predators of the grassland ecosystem. Its burrows shelter dozens of species.

The greatest threat it faces is the loss of its preferred habitat. These animals need intact tallgrass plains and meadows to burrow, hunt, and roam. And that habitat is almost gone. Less than 1% of Canada’s pre-settlement tallgrass prairie remains.

🟡 Status: Special Concern (COSEWIC)

In Canada, they exist in exactly one place : a small stretch of the Frenchman River Valley in Grasslands National Park. What confined them here is a combination of drought, sylvatic plague — the same bacteria responsible for the bubonic plague — and the near-total conversion of native grassland to agriculture. Black-tailed prairie dog populations have been reduced by as much as 95% of their historical numbers across North America.

🟠 Status: Threatened (SARA)

The Common Nighthawk isn’t common anymore. It has declined by 76% since 1973 in Canada. The main culprit isn’t a single dramatic event — it’s a slow, quiet collapse of the insect populations it depends on. Pesticides, agricultural intensification, and the near-total disappearance of native prairie have reduced the flying insect abundance that nighthawks need to survive.

🟠 Status: Threatened (SARA)

There were once 30 to 60 million Plains Bison roaming North America. By 1889, only 512 remained. The result of unregulated hunting.

Then, in December 2005, bisons were re-introduced in the park. Today, it has an herd of 400 to 500 biso

07/21/2026

Did you know we have American Antelopes in Canada?

They are known as the Pronghorn and it’s the fastest land animal in North America (up to 92 km/h ⚡️⚡️⚡️)

It roams free in the open grasslands and praries of South Alberta and Saskatchewan.

During my trip, it was one of the animals I was looking forward to seeing the most.

07/21/2026

Summer in full bloom at Waterton Lakes National Park and some of its residents 🐻🐐🌸

07/16/2026

Permission to land : Granted!

📍Newfounland, August 2024

07/15/2026

Yes, who’s there?

07/10/2026

I’m a wildlife photographer, and here’s a collection of my favorites shots I got of foxes this spring 🦊🌸 Which one do you prefer 👇?

07/07/2026

Plongeon huards au petit matin 🌞

📍Québec, Juillet 2026

07/07/2026

Cape St. Mary’s, what a special place ✨

That morning, I arrived before sunrise and a thick fog covering the entire landscape. Cape St. Mary’s is actually one of the foggiest places on Earth, averaging more than 200 days of fog each year.

At first, all I could hear were the calls of the 30,000 Northern gannets nesting on Bird Rock somewhere out in the mist.

As the sun rose, the fog slowly started to dissipate, revealing the cliffs, the colony and the ocean. 💙

📍Newfoundland, August 2024