Few birds have the audacity to spend the winter in the planet's northernmost regions.
These witty creatures may not be the most dramatic or mysterious of Nunavut's avian life, but they are surely the most resourceful. Just watch two of these intellectual marvels separate a gnarled mutt from its caribou shank. Each summer, millions of seabirds migrate to the Arctic to breed and bear their young before returning to more hospitable climes. Although found in more pedestrian congregations, shorebirds such as phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, and ruddy turnstones also make for exciting sightings. Indeed, and sometimes in great numbers.