A rare white gyrfalcon was captured on camera on top of an observation tower at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre in northern Manitoba earlier this month.
The footage was captured Feb. 9 by Explore.org, an online organization that documents nature across the globe, and uses the camera in Churchill to stream live video of the northern lights to viewers.
But, the group has been treated to more than a dozen visits by the gyrfalcon in the last few weeks.
The video has received over 7,000 likes on Facebook and more than 15,000 views on YouTube.
Gyrfalcons are the largest species of falcon in the world, and live in arctic and subarctic areas of the northern hemisphere, hunting other birds as large as ducks and geese for food.
Researchers at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre say the gyrfalcon was a resident before the camera went up, and as a territorial animal, it keeps returning to the perch where the camera now lives.
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