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Last Review/Updated: May 10, 2002
 Winter provides a unique opportunity for waterfowl viewing in this area, as the power plants at Wabamun, Sundance and Keephills provide year-round open water for hooded mergansers, bald eagles, and several thousand mallards.
A large variety of migrating, breeding and moulting waterbirds can be seen here, including gulls, terns, rails, herons, loons, kingfishers, sandpipers, and even American white pelicans. Ospreys nest at both Wabamun Lake and nearby Lake Isle, and there are nesting colonies of red-necked and western grebes. This transition zone, a combination of rolling moraine, parkland, mixedwood forest, bog and sandy pine areas, supports birds such as common ravens, gray jays and great gray owls, which are normally expected further to the north and west.
Beavers and muskrats use the lake while the surrounding upland is home to coyotes, porcupines, moose and white-tailed deer. The lake contains northern pike, lake whitefish, yellow perch and walleye. Whitefish can be seen spawning in the shallows by the railway trestle during October and November.
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