IBA Lepas Bay Islet Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia Site Summary BC008 Latitude Longitude 54.175° N 133.041° W Elevation Size 0 m 0.39 km² This page was accessed in may, 2014 at http://www.ibacanada.ca/site.jsp?siteID=BC008&seedet=Y Site Description This unnamed Islet lies about 150 m from shore near the head of Lepas Bay at the extreme northwest corner of
Reports in BC Environment Ministry Files 2008 Annual Report for Park Use Permit # VI 0610242: Link to report, 2008 Leach’s Storm-petrel survival in British Columbia. 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
Kristiina Ovaska has consented to use pictures of one of the slugs referred to in this research paper, Prophysaon foliolatum as being the first record for BC. I have included several pictures here because of the pronounced colour variation of this species. This set of images is from the E-Fauna Photo Gallery: See this reference
Inventory Methods for Seabirds: cormorants, gulls, murres, storm-petrels, Ancient Murrelet, auklets, puffins, and Pigeon Guillemot Standards for Components of British Columbia’s Biodiversity No. 13 Prepared by Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks Resources Inventory Branch for the Terrestrial Ecosystems Task Force Resources Inventory Committee March 97 Version 0.0 © The Province of British Columbia Published
The primary goal of the 1988 survey was to obtain baseline estimates for burrowing species that could be used to monitor future population trends and identify current potential threats to those populations. See the full PDF here: Cleland Island_Environment Canada Technical Report
Trudy Carson provided a description of the islands and the bird species. A species list of macrophytes, and Randy Baker has provided a report on annelids. The uniqueness of this reserve and why it was an IBP Area, is that they are a small group of islets with different habitats ( landform and vegetation) features
This seabird Census was done by Wayne Campbell in 1975/1976