User:Clare Daitch/Yukon Wildlife Preserve

The Yukon Wildlife Preserve is a 750 acre wildlife viewing facilty located 30 km from downtown Whitehorse, Yukon. It features northern mammals living in large natural enclosures in a variety of habitats. Animals at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve include elk, bison, mule deer, caribou, thinhorn sheep, muskoxen, lynx, mountain goats and moose. The Preserve is also home to numerous arctic ground squirrel, found in abundance throughout the summer months.

== Birds at the Preserve ==

Every spring, numerous migratory birds and waterfowl return to the Yukon Wildlife Preserve, using the area as a staging or nesting ground. Common birds seen at the Preserve include: Mountain bluebird, Northern flicker, Trumpeter swan, Boreal chickadees, tree swallows, american robins, bald eagles, golden eagles, red-necked phaloropes and lapland longspurs.