Images from Hippa Island : Vladimir Krajina Ecological Reserve : 2014

Laas Parnell, a student from Haida Gwaii  who attended Lester Pearson College in 2012-2014. She  spent the summer in 2014 on a boat 7 hours a day in the ocean around Hippa island which is on the outer ocean side of the Vladimir Krajina Ecological reserve.  She has sent us these images of this beautiful

Demographic Consequences of Early Development and Extreme Climate Events for Alcids on Trangle Island BC

Kyle  Morrison – 2009 – Simon Fraser University Master of Science Thesis See complete thesis pdf: http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/9472/etd4466.pdf ABSTRACT In long-lived species like seabirds, population growth rate is most sensitive to changes in adult survival, although juvenile survival and recruitment can also be important. The reproductive success of seabirds often varies greatly depending on climate-driven food

Ornaments and overflight behaviour of Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) breeding on Triangle Island,

Blackburn, G. 2004. Ornaments and overflight behaviour of Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) breeding on Triangle Island, British Columbia. MSc thesis, Centre for Wildlife Ecology, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC. 74 pp. Tufted puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) are unusual among seabirds in that they bear multiple colourful ornaments during the breeding season. They

Parental Provisioning and Nestling Departure Decisions: A Supplementary Feeding Experiment inTufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhatta) on Triangle Island, BC

Carina Gjerrum’s Thesis published in The Auk 121(2):463-472. 2004 Abstract I used a supplemental feeding experiment to determine whether adult Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) would decrease provisioning effort in response to a reduction in nestling nutritional requirements, and to investigate the relationship between parental provisioning effort and timing of fledging. As predicted, parents of the