Saskatchewan Birds: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

Saskatchewan is known as the Land of Living Skies, and this might as well be a reference to its bird life. Spectacular congregations of ducks, geese, and cranes migrate through the famed Prairie Pothole Region where myriad lakes, ponds, and sloughs—the “potholes”—offer abundant feeding opportunities. In the southern grasslands, Western Meadowlarks and provincial bird Sharp-tailed Grouse are common breeders; Harris’s Sparrows and various species of wood-warblers nest in the boreal forests to...