On July 11, 2014, Roger Allen ( warden) and BC Parks Staff Trudy Chatwin and Hugh McDonald with Darrian (student at UVIC ), visited Canoe Islets Ecological Reserve. Canoe Islet: No Pelagic Cormorants or Double-crested Cormorants, Bald Eagle -1, Black Oystercatchers – 4, Surfbirds – 7, Ruddy Turnstone – 1, Black Turnstones – 5, Glaucous-winged
On December 16, I accompanied a tour to Race Rocks Ecological Reserve. On board was Todd Golumbia who, while working for Environment Canada out of Sidney, Vancouver Island, was involved with research on the Black Oystercatchers of the Salish Sea. (See research papers below) Today there were 31 Oystercatchers in their favourite roosting area in
Now we know! Here are fact-based guidelines for how close to kayak to seabirds May 12, 2011 0 Comment by Trudy Chatwin Summer 2011 issue of coastandkayak.com Some of the best experiences in a kayak are when you can slip quietly along and observe marine life so close that you feel a part of nature.
Trudy Chatwin’s Master’s theses from Royal Roads University. ABSTRACT: In order to set guidelines that promote responsible wildlife viewing, I quantified the effects of boat-based disturbance to seabirds off Vancouver Island. Field trials recorded the approach distance at which roosting and nesting birds responded to either a motor boat or a kayak. Probability of agitation
Seabird nest and roost sites are important to maintenance of BC’s biodiversity and many of the important nest colonies are protected in Ecological Reserves and Parks. Disturbance to wildlife is a major issue that park and wildlife managers routinely face, yet information to assess threat is often not available, —-Need to set guidelines based on
See PDF BC PARKS canoe islands COMPOSITION Physical: The reserve 400m from the Valdes Island shoreline. These are composed of glacially smoothed sedimentary rocks of the Nanaimo Group, and lie at the eastern edge of Georgia Strait. Subtidally, strongly sloping bedrock substrates of irregular relief are interrupted by narrow sand-shell terraces. The channel between Canoe
This map is adapted from the BC Parks website
Satellite map showing locations of the three ecological reserves ;
Census by Derek Astbury See the (2 pages) PDF: Canoe, Rose and Ballingall Islets ER Cormorant counts 1999cormorant
This 371 page, 50 mb book may be downloaded from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/HFD/library/documents/bib32374.pdf Thanks to Jody Krakowski ER warden for Baynes Island ER #69 for showing us the location of this important document. It provides a page and a map on each of the reserves created up to 1992. Include are the Ecological Reserves now lost from
From BC Naturalist September/October 1991 Vol 29 No 5 PDF: seabird_article
A good account of the Physical and Biological Characteristics, and several sections on nesting Cormorants. See the full 32 page PDF: Canoe and Rose Islets Management Plan Also historical issues and management strategy. Pictures of fish that are food for double crested cormorants
Breeding Populations of Double-Crested Cormorants and Pelagic Cormorants were surveyed in the Strait of Georgia, BC in 1983. Double-crested Cormorant numbers have increased 2.4 fold and Pelagic Cormorant numbers 1.1 fold since 1975 PDF: canoe_islets_cormorant_article By Kees Vermeer and Leo Rankin Click on the introduction to the article below:
Thomas Ovanin writes about the 2 ecological reserves in the Islands trust area in the magazine “The Islands” PDF FILE:bc_double_crested_cormorants
PDF files: dive_report(1) Click on the following introduction.
J.B. Foster and E.A. Stewart diving in 1977 map and record a species list of subtidal animals and macroalgae. Fish species and abundance was noted by Howard McElderry , U. Vic. PDF FILE: dive_report