Colourful Tundra Fairytale

Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) are a seasonal colour moulting species, moulting twice a year in autumn and spring. Most of the global arctic fox population change colour from brown with lighter ventral sides to completely white in winter. Taken in mid-October, this photograph captures the fox “in-transition” between summer and winter coats, making it conspicuous on the backdrop of the colourful autumn, in the sub-arctic tundra near Churchill, Manitoba.
This photograph was taken during my time volunteering at the Churchill Northern Studies Center.