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Greater Victoria Naturehood SENĆOŦEN L Kw Ŋ N ECOSYSTEMS & BIODIVERSITY Locals in the NatureHood Greater Victoria is high in biodiversity, as shown by the great variety of plants, animals, and ecosystems that Arbutus Lorquin’s admiral are found throughout the region. Biodiversity can be Arbutus menziesii / KOKE,ILĆ Limenitis lorquini / QELAXEN A broadleaf evergreen tree, up to 30 m This butterfly can easily be recognized observed close to home, in backyard gardens, grassy tall, usually with a crooked or leaning by the orange tips on the upper part of parks, and street trees. Biodiversity is even higher in trunk that divides into several twisting its wings. There is a white band across our region’s natural ecosystems, including: upright branches and an irregularly both wings, above and below. Females • Coastal Douglas-fir forests rounded crown. The tree drops its are considerably larger than males. • Garry Oak meadows leaves in the summer instead of the ✔ fall. The tree’s reddish bark peels off, ✔ Orca • Wetlands revealing the smooth, new green Orcinus orca / KEL,LOLEMEĆEN • Streams, rivers and riparian areas bark underneath. • Rocky, pebble and sandy shorelines Bufflehead The Orca is the largest member of the A oceanic dolphin family. This toothed • Eelgrass meadows and kelp forests The Bufflehead is Canada’s smallest American wigeon whale has a diverse diet, although diving duck and it is found in our Mareca americana / ŚEŚENE individual populations often specialize Did you know? NatureHood only over the winter period. Also known as a Baldpate, the American in particular types of prey. Some feed Its body is mostly white with a black Wigeon is a species of dabbling duck exclusively on fish, while others hunt • Vancouver Island is a biodiversity hotspot and is found in North America. Formerly marine mammals such as seals and thought to have provided refuge to plants and back, and the male has a prominent assigned to Anas, this species is ✔ other species of dolphin. animals during the last glaciation. white patch on his head. This compact classified with the other wigeons in bird stores fat to fuel its migration and • Victoria sits in the Coastal Douglas-fir Biogeoclimatic the dabbling duck genus Mareca. It great blue heron are sometimes affectionately called is the New World counterpart of the ✔ Ardea herodias / SNEKE zone – an area affected by factors like temperature, “butterballs”. Buffleheads are generally Eurasian wigeon. This large wading bird is common rainfall, moisture balance and altitude – which covers quiet birds, but while breeding the male only 0.3% of the province but is home to the highest near the shores of open water and in has a hoarse rolling voice. You may Bald eagle wetlands over most of Greater Victoria. number of species and ecosystems at risk in BC. Great Blue Heron hear the ‘grrk’ call of a female Haliaeetus leucocephalus / QELENSEN Despite their impressive size, Great Blue • Some species like the Vancouver Island Water Shrew when alarmed or near her nest. The adult Bald Eagle is a striking dark Herons (on the cover) weigh only 2 to (found near Sooke) are endemic to Vancouver Island, brownish-black bird. It gets its white 3 kg thanks in part to their hollow bones, meaning they are not found anywhere else. head and tail at approximately four ✔ a feature shared by all birds. years of age. The Bald Eagle is not bald. As you visit different sites in the NatureHood, watch and They got the name from an old English harbour seal listen for the incredible biodiversity that surrounds you. word “balde” meaning white (white- Phoca vitulina / ÁSW headed). They can grow to about ✔ Harbour Seals are found along the 1 m tall and have a wingspread coast in coastal waters, estuaries and of over 2 m. river systems. Look for them basking in 5 the sun on the rocks along the shore. Banana slug They range in colour from brownish to Ariolimax columbianus / black with a speckled pattern. PENÁNE KÍOTEN ✔ Banana Slugs are one of the largest Pacific CHORUS frog slugs in the world! They can grow up Pseudacris regilla / WEKEK to 26 cm long. Banana Slugs can also This small frog is usually about 5 cm have 27,000 teeth on a long tooth- long full grown. They can be green, covered “tongue”. They come in a bronze, grey, and all colours in range of colours, from yellow to brown between. Pacific Chorus Frogs can be ✔ to black and many are mottled with heard calling throughout the year, black spots. Banana slugs like a moist, especially during rainstorms, and the cool environment and are native to the spring mating choruses are impossible BC temperate coastal rainforest. ✔ to miss. It’s very difficult to spot these little fellows, though, since they will Belted kingfisher cease calling if they feel threatened. Megaceryle alcyon / TĆELE The Belted Kingfisher is a pigeon-sized Pacific wren Douglas-fir bird. It is blue-gray above, white below, Troglodytes pacificus / DEDEM with a bushy crest and dagger-like bill. These birds are very vocal, so listen for The male has a blue-gray breast band. their rapid series of tumbling and trill- The female is similar, but also has a more about nature. nature. about more ing notes in forest environments. When chestnut belly band. Enjoy a journey to learn, love and discover discover and love learn, to journey a Enjoy ✔ you hear their sweet song, patiently look in the understory for mouse-like working to better understand and protect nature. protect and understand better to working 12 Eelgrass movements along decaying logs and in your sightings. You will create data for scientists scientists for data create will You sightings. your Zostera marina / ĆELEM ✔ upturned roots. Early mornings during discoveries and use iNaturalist and eBird to confirm confirm to eBird and iNaturalist use and discoveries Sometimes known as the `salmon the breeding season are the best times If you are curious to learn more, take photos of your your of photos take more, learn to curious are you If highway’, Eelgrass is important to the to find them perched in the open, survival of salmon. A native seagrass, shaking as they sing. facts about these plants and animals. animals. and plants these about facts it rivals some of the world’s richest beautiful images, names, and interesting interesting and names, images, beautiful rainforests. It provides food and to some of the life that you see. Look for the the for Look see. you that life the of some to Douglas-Fir protection important to fish and Pseudotsuga menziesii / JSA While you explore, this map will help put names names put help will map this explore, you While shellfish species. ✔ There are two varieties of Douglas- fir: they are Coastal and Interior. Creative Commons: Mr.TinDC Commons: Creative Bumblebee The Coastal variety that grows in the Bombus / SEMSEMÍYE NatureHood can reach heights of The native bumblebee has a robust 80 m. black body that is extensively covered with black, yellow, and sometimes ✔ Red squirrel orange hairs on all body segments. Its Tamiasciurus hudsonicus / ĆEPSIOŦEN colonies nest underground and unlike This small tree squirrel prefers honey bees, they prefer to be out coniferous forests. They spend most of ✔ pollinating in cool, cloudy weather. their day in the tree canopy and will chirp loudly when you get close, which Common camas makes it easier to find them by listen- Camassia quamash / KLO,EL ing than by sight. Their colour will Common Camas (on the cover) and change during the winter season to a Great Camas have light to deep blue greyish brown hue without a ✔ black side stripe. and check off the ones you find. you ones the off check and flowers and bloom in the spring. Both are perennial herbs that grow from ook for plants and animals on the species list, list, species the on animals and plants for ook L 6. 17 an edible bulb. They were once an im- River otter olunteer with a local stewardship group stewardship local a with olunteer V 5. 5. 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