News/Reports
Research Summary For Cleland Island ER #1
Cleland island Listed as important bird area
Notes on RECENT BREEDING OF COMMON MURRES at STARLIGHT REEF and CLELAND ISLAND, BC. PDF file
Harry R. Carter1, Ken H. Morgan2, Trudy Chatwin3, and Francis Bruhwiler4
Breeding Biology and Twinning Experiments of Rhinocerous Auklets on Cleland Island, BC K.R. Summers and R.H.Drent
The Murrelet >Vol. 60, No. 1, Spring, 1979 >
Heavy metal and metallothionein concentrations in seabirds from the Pacific coast of Canada
by J E Elliott, A M Scheuhammer
Organochlorine contaminants in seabird eggs from the Pacific coast of Canada, 1971–1986
Special Importance Threats PDF
Identification of a Novel C10H6N2Br4Cl2 Heterocyclic Compound PDF
Other reports in BC Environment Ministry Files
2008 Annual Report for Park Use Permit # VI 0610242: Leach’s Storm-petrel survival in British Columbia (Jun 2008)
Author: Harfenist Environmental Consulting; Harfenist, A.
In 2008 Anne Harfenist completed her second year of a survival study of Leach’s Storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) on Cleland Island in the Cleland Island Ecological Reserve. The field work took place on July 2-3, 2008, and involved one biologist and one field assistant.
2009 Annual Report of Park Use Permit # VI 10610242 Leach’s Storm-petrel survival in British Columbia (Jul 2009)
Author: Harfenist Environmental Consulting: Harfenist, A.
In 2009 Anne Harfenist completed her third year of a survival study of Leachs Storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) on Cleland Island in the Cleland Island Ecological Reserve. The field work took place on July 1-3, 2009, and involved one biologist.
Annual Report of Park Use Permit # VI0610242: Leach’s Storm-petrel survival in British Columbia (Jul 2007)
Author: Harfenist Environmental Consulting; Harfenist, A.
In 2007 Anne Harfensit completed the first year of a survival study of Leachs Storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) on Cleland Island in the Cleland Island Ecological Reserve. The field work took place in 2.5 days, July 6 -8, during which time one biologist and one field assistant banded 300 Leachs Storm-petrels.
Ground Nest Survey of Cleland Island and Murre Reef (Jan 2004)
Author: Clarkson, P.; Bruhwiler, F.; Hunter, T.
Cleland Island is British Columbia’s first Ecological Reserve and one of the largest seabird colonies along Canada’s west coast. It provides nesting habitat for a wide-variety of both ground and burrow-nesting birds. This report summarizes finding from 2 visits to the island during 2004 to survey (on foot) for ground nesting activity of Black Oystercatchers, Glaucous-winged Gulls, Common Murre and Brandts Cormorant.