Wildlife
Bison and Musk Oxen: 3 Live Cameras — Canada and Alaska
Two cameras in Grasslands National Park, Canada, and one on a musk ox pasture in Alaska — the large grazing animals of the North American plains.
What you can see
Three cameras on the big grazers of North America. All are on grassland or pasture, so unlike animals that hide in forest, their size comes across on screen.
Grasslands National Park bison (the spring) (Saskatchewan, Canada) points at a natural spring beside the ecotour road in the park's west block. Plains bison come to drink, and on hot days they will wade in.
Grasslands National Park bison (west block) is a wide view over a remote part of the same park. In winter bison dig through snow to reach the grass; in spring the herd comes through with calves. Mule deer, pronghorn and grassland songbirds pass as well.
The musk ox pasture (Alaska, United States) is at the Large Animal Research Station of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Males and females of different ages are there, and in some seasons the outdoor pen by the calf barn is in frame.
Cameras you can watch now: 3
All 3 are live video. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Live video
Plains bison at the spring
Saskatchewan, Val Marie · Wildlife · Nature
A natural spring beside the Ecotour road in the park's west block. Plains bison come here to drink, and on hot days to stand in it. Streamed from 04:00 to 23:00 local time.
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Live video
Plains bison, west block
Saskatchewan, Val Marie · Wildlife · Nature
A wide view over a remote part of the park's west block. In winter bison dig through snow to graze here; in spring the herd arrives with calves. Deer, pronghorn and prairie songbirds pass through too.
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Live video
Muskox pasture
Alaska, Fairbanks · Wildlife
A view of the muskox pasture at the Large Animal Research Station of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which keeps males and females of various ages. Depending on the season the camera also takes in the pen outside the calf barn.
When to watch
What the providers give is a broadcast window: the spring camera runs from local 04:00 to 23:00. Saskatchewan is 15 hours behind Japan and keeps no summer time, so that is 19:00 to 14:00 the next day in Japan.
On season, only the west block camera says anything: bison digging through snow in winter, herds with calves in spring. No dates are given, so none are set here.
Alaska (Fairbanks) is 17 hours behind in summer time. Local noon is 05:00 the next day in Japan and local 18:00 is 11:00. In winter time the gap is 18 hours.
Alaska is a place where the length of the day swings hard. Summer stays light past midnight; winter daylight lasts only a few hours. In winter, the Japanese morning and midday are that short local day.
If it isn't showing
All three also appear on the Canada and United States pages, and every animal camera is gathered under Wildlife.
The same two countries also hold Polar Bears, Brooks Falls Bears and Salmon and Aurora.
How to pick the hour is set out in Which cameras are in daylight now.
Where to find Bison and Musk Oxen
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- explore.org (Deep links and embeds OK, no image reuse) — Official site
The footage belongs to each agency. This site is an unofficial guide, and each sample frame was copied once per camera under that agency's terms of use.