Trans Mountain Follow-Up Response to BC Nature & Nature Cda IR No. 1 The following table includes available data on nesting pairs of colonial seabirds within the Marine RSA, with the exception of pigeon guillemot where nesting pair numbers were unknown, but individuals were recorded. Surveys occurred between 1957 and 2005. Where sites were surveyed multiple times, the average for nesting pairs is used.
Recorded Nesting Pairs of Colonial Seabirds within the Marine RSA
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Colony Location
winged winged
-
petrel
crested crested
-
-
Gull
le
Black
petrel petrel
Species
tailed Storm tailed
Brandt's
-
Cormorant Cormorant
(Individuals)
Storm
Tufted Puffin
Oystercatcher
Leach’sStorm
Doub
Cassin'sAuklet
Pigeon Guillemot
Glaucous
RhinocerosAuklet
Fork PelagicCormorant
Ada islands 124 Alley Rock 2 13 4 Annette inlet 25 Anniversary Island 1 Arbutus Island 9 2 101 28 Argyle islets 1 Augustus point 8 16 Baeria rocks 7 103 Ballenas Islands 1 2 4 Ballingall Islets 13 1 1 145 13 Bare point 12 43 5 6 Barnet 2 Bay rock 5 Bedford islands 1 27 Belle Chain Islets 3 56 Bertha island 12 Bird islet 1 35 Blind islets 2 Bordelais Islets 12 1 Bowyer island 12 Boyson Islands 1 1 Brandon Islands 4 3 Brothers islands 7 2 143 Burrard bridge 39 9 Cabbage Island 1 Canoe Islet 1 56 Cape Beale 7 Carlos island 1 Chain islands 16 4
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Recorded Nesting Pairs of Colonial Seabirds within the Marine RSA
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Colony Location
winged winged
-
petrel
crested crested
-
-
Gull
le
Black
petrel petrel
Species
tailed Storm tailed
Brandt's
-
Cormorant Cormorant
(Individuals)
Storm
Tufted Puffin
Oystercatcher
Leach’sStorm
Doub
Cassin'sAuklet
Pigeon Guillemot
Glaucous
RhinocerosAuklet
Fork PelagicCormorant
Chain Islets 363 80 4 2432 74 Chain Islets (Great Chain 4 Island) Channel islands 1 1 2 Charles Island 100 120 1 13 3 90 Chatham Island and Rock 2 Christie Islet 76 27 3 343 23 Chrome island 134 3 Church island 1 Davie islet 3 De Courcy island 16 2 2 Dempster island 3 Denman island dock-east 1 Denman island dock-west 1 Eagle rocks 1 10 East point (Saturna Island) 6 7 7 Emily islet 1 2 Execution rock 4 Faber Islets 2 1 False creek 172 Fearney point 13 Fegan islets 1 Fiddle reef 26 Finnerty islands 1 4 6 Five Finger Island 168 50 3 480 19 Fleming island 1 Fletcher's beach 15 Florencia islet 40 5 234 12 Flower island 2 1 Folger island 4 2 1 Franklin island 3 11 216 3 Gabriola island Northeast cliffs 1 4 Gabriola island west cliffs 31 3 Galiano cliffs - Active Pass 15
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Recorded Nesting Pairs of Colonial Seabirds within the Marine RSA
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Colony Location
winged winged
-
petrel
crested crested
-
-
Gull
le
Black
petrel petrel
Species
tailed Storm tailed
Brandt's
-
Cormorant Cormorant
(Individuals)
Storm
Tufted Puffin
Oystercatcher
Leach’sStorm
Doub
Cassin'sAuklet
Pigeon Guillemot
Glaucous
RhinocerosAuklet
Fork PelagicCormorant
Galiano cliffs central 14 42 1 27 Galiano cliffs north 24 6 26 Galiano cliffs south 10 George Fraser Islands 1 Gordon head 8 Gossip island 1 Granville bridge 47 10 Great Bear Rock 2 211 8 Grebe islets 2 183 Greig island 1 24 8 Halibut Island 2 4 Harris island 1 25 6 Harrison island 1 Hatch point 2 4 Hodgson islands 1 Hosie islands 3 Hudson rocks 19 53 4 185 2 Humphries Reef 1 1 Imrie Island 3 97 8 Isabella island 1 Jackson Rock 1 1 James island dolphin 8 Janson Islet Reef 2 1 Java Islets 3 298 15 Jeddah rocks 1 2 Jemmy Jones Island 1 Jervis island 1 4 Ker Island 1 Killer whale rocks 1 Lawton point 5 Liddell cliffs (Prevost Island) 3 2 Link island 10 Lion islets 1 Lions gate bridge 12
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Recorded Nesting Pairs of Colonial Seabirds within the Marine RSA
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Colony Location
winged winged
-
petrel
crested crested
-
-
Gull
le
Black
petrel petrel
Species
tailed Storm tailed
Brandt's
-
Cormorant Cormorant
(Individuals)
Storm
Tufted Puffin
Oystercatcher
Leach’sStorm
Doub
Cassin'sAuklet
Pigeon Guillemot
Glaucous
RhinocerosAuklet
Fork PelagicCormorant
Little D'Arcy Island 1 Little Group - Dock Island and 4 3 4 rocks Long harbour 6 2 Lookout point 3 Lyall harbour 1 3 Mahk Rock 1 Mandarte Island and Islet 368 270 4 2292 241 6 Mara Rock 1 Mary Tod Island 1 1 Maude Island 1 2 McRae islet 1 11 262 4 Meade Islets 1 Merry Island 1 6 3 Miami islet 38 Minx Reef and Rock 1 Montizambert cliffs 1 Mouat islands 2 35 Mudge island 1 5 Nantes Island 1 Newcastle island 1 Norris rocks 1 287 North vancouver 158 Oaks bluff (North Pender 13 57 Island) Osborn bay 1 Pam Rock 1 67 Parker island 4 Parkinson cliff 15 Passage island 19 1 384 8 Pellow islets 1 2 Peter Rock 1 Pinder Rock 2 9 Pine Islet 2 1
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Recorded Nesting Pairs of Colonial Seabirds within the Marine RSA
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Colony Location
winged winged
-
petrel
crested crested
-
-
Gull
le
Black
petrel petrel
Species
tailed Storm tailed
Brandt's
-
Cormorant Cormorant
(Individuals)
Storm
Tufted Puffin
Oystercatcher
Leach’sStorm
Doub
Cassin'sAuklet
Pigeon Guillemot
Glaucous
RhinocerosAuklet
Fork PelagicCormorant
Point atkinson 4 Popham island 2 Porpoise bay 1 Preedy rocks 1 2 Priestland rock 1 Prospect point 53 4 4 Queen's reach 1 Race Rocks 91 3 448 78 Ragged island 1 Ragged islets 1 69 2 Reay island 1 9 6 Rebecca rock 1 Red islets 1 1 Rose Islets 8 2 116 Round rock 3 Rubly Island 1 Rutley Islands 3 1 1 Ruxton Island 1 3 Sallas Rocks 4 21 San Jose Islets 1 2 San Simon point 6 Sand heads 61 Sangster 2 Sea egg rocks 5 Seabird Rocks 190 430 7 6 181 65 160 130 8 Second narrows 146 46 Sheer islands 1 73 Shoal islands 74 1 2 Sidney 4 Sidney Spit 3 Sister Islets 1 Sisters islets 25 Siwash rock 8 Snake Island 44 5 439 6
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Recorded Nesting Pairs of Colonial Seabirds within the Marine RSA
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-
Colony Location
winged winged
-
petrel
crested crested
-
-
Gull
le
Black
petrel petrel
Species
tailed Storm tailed
Brandt's
-
Cormorant Cormorant
(Individuals)
Storm
Tufted Puffin
Oystercatcher
Leach’sStorm
Doub
Cassin'sAuklet
Pigeon Guillemot
Glaucous
RhinocerosAuklet
Fork PelagicCormorant
Sooke bay islets 1 St. John point (Hornby island) 51 6 2 Starlight Reef 19 5 300 11 Stud Islets 1 Swale Rock 1 Swartz head rocks 1 1 Swiss boy island 3 Ten mile point 1 Tent island 37 12 2 Tortoise Islets 1 1 Trail islands 7 1 5 11 Tree island 1 2 Trial islands 1 2 Tsawassen breakwater 238 Tsawassen jetty 7 1 Turtle Island 1 Tzartus Island 1 15 Unit Rocks 1 Upwood islets 3 Valdes island west cliffs 4 Vancouver harbour 112 Vesuvius bay 4 Victoria 110 Village Reef 4 Vivian island 2 1 208 48 Wallace island 3 2 Wallace Island 1 (west end rock) Wallis rocks 7 WCT near Tsusiat falls 4 WCT near Valencia cliffs 8 Weld island Westshore terminal 27 White Islets 8 2 490 11
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Recorded Nesting Pairs of Colonial Seabirds within the Marine RSA
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Colony Location
winged winged
-
petrel
crested crested
-
-
Gull
le
Black
petrel petrel
Species
tailed Storm tailed
Brandt's
-
Cormorant Cormorant
(Individuals)
Storm
Tufted Puffin
Oystercatcher
Leach’sStorm
Doub
Cassin'sAuklet
Pigeon Guillemot
Glaucous
RhinocerosAuklet
Fork PelagicCormorant
Whyac 27 Whyte islet 1 11 Wiebe Island 2 Wigwam inn 1 Willis Island 1 Wise Rock 1 Wizard islet 4 2 Wouwer island 1 Source: Canadian Wildlife Service. 2010. British Columbia Seabird Colony Inventory: Digital dataset. Canadian Wildlife Service, Pacific and Yukon Region, British Columbia. April 2010.
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