Join WildResearch for our annual Bird Identification Field Trips at a variety of parks across the Metro Vancouver area!

Learn to identify a wide variety of wintering birds, including:

• Waterfowl
• Loons
• Gulls
• Shorebirds
• Raptors
• Sparrows

Dates

• December 14, 2013  — Reifel Bird Sanctuary
• January 18, 2014 — Maplewood Flats
• February 15, 2014 — Iona Beach Regional Park
• March 22, 2014 — Boundary Bay

Duration of meetings will be about 2-3 hours.

Field trips are open to all current WildResearch members.

To Participate:

WildResearch Members: confirm your participation by sign-up on  WhenToHelp. Members without WhenToHelp accounts should email info@wildresearch.ca

Non-members:  join us at wildresearch.ca/get-involved/become-a-member/

 For more information:

For more information contact, info@wildresearch.ca subject “Bird ID Trips”

For more photos see WildResearch’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.391407037538542.105503.171922462820335&type=3

WildResearch’s Sept 15th Pelagic Seabird fundraiser was a great success! Thanks to the 96 trip participants for making the day extra fun! A full list of the bird seen during the trip can be found below. Special thanks to:

• Pablo Jost, our official Chum Master
• Russell Cannings, Mike Boyd, and Paul Levesque: Spotters Extrodinaire. And everyone else who helped us call out birds!
• The Captain and Crew of the MV Francis Barkley, for keeping us safe and going the extra mile to help us spot great seabirds.

And thanks again to all our participants! Looking forward to seeing you out on our next trip.

Birds seen well offshore:

• Common Loon – 1
• Pacific Loon – 16
• Red-throated loon – 1
• Western Grebe – 3
• Red-necked Grebe – 10
• Horned Grebe – 6
• Black-footed Albatross – 3 to 5
• Northern Fulmar – 3 to 5
• Pink-footed Shearwater – 300
• Flesh-footed Shearwater – 2
• Buller’s Shearwater – 7
• Sooty Shearwater – 1000 to 1500
• Manx Shearwater – 1
• Leach’s Storm-Petrel – 1
• Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel – 1
• Brandt’s Cormorant – 2
• American Wigeon – 2
• Northern Pintail – 12
• White-winged Scoter – 6
• Surf Scoter – 30
• Bald Eagle – 2
• Sanderling – 1
• Shorebird spp – 5
• Long-billed Dowitcher – 1
• Red-necked Phalarope – 150
• Red Phalarope – 7
• South Polar Skua – 7
• Pomarine Jaeger – 12
• Parasitic Jaeger – 4
• Sabine’s Gull – 20
• Herring Gull – 1
• Thayer’s Gull -1
• Glaucous-winged Gull – 15
• California Gull – several hundred (500+)
• Black-legged Kittiwake – 2
• Common Murre – several hundred (200+)
• Rhinoceros Auklet – 15
• Cassin’s Auklet – 2

Songbird seen flying around the ship and landing on the ship 40 km offshore:

• Yellow-rumped Wabler – 1
• Chestnut-sided warbler – 1
• Townsend’s Warbler – 1
• Yellow Warbler – 3
• White-throated sparrow -1

Birds seen in the harbor:

• Rock Dove – 1
• Belted Kingfisher – 2
• Northwestern Crow – 1
• Great Blue Heron – 1
• Western Gull – 1

Mammals:

• Orcas – 4
• California Sea Lion – 6
• Humpback Whales – 20
• White-sided Dolphin – 2
• Dahl’s Porpoise – 6