2nd Annual Volunteer Appreciation Party and Annual General Meeting
Thank you to all who attended and helped with the organization! We had a great time being entertained by stories from Russell Cannings’ Big Year in BC, duking it out for top spot in the Bird Quiz, and seeing the results from WildResearch’s 2011 projects.
Posted: November 16, 2011
Fall 2011 Pelagic Trip
Birds:
- Common Murre
- Rhinocerous Auklet
- Tufted Puffin
- Pigeon Guillemot
- Buller’s Shearwater (32km)
- Sooty Shearwater
- Pink-footed Shearwater (15km)
- Black-footed Albatross (37km)
- Northern Fulmar
- South Polar Skua
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Sabine’s Gull (37km)
- Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
Sanderling (30km)- Red Phalarope
- California Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- Mew Gull
- Thayer’s Gull
- Herring Gull
- Pacific Loon
- Common Loon
- Northern Pintail
- Green-winged Teal
- Bald Eagle
- Northwestern Crow
Belted Kingfisher- Surfbird
- Black Turnstone
- White-winged Scoter
- Surf Scoter
- Marbled Murrelet
Marine Mammals:
- Humpback whale (30km)
Posted: October 15, 2011
Pelagic Trip from Ucluelet, Vancouver Island
Thanks to everyone who came on WildResearch’s first pelagic trip! Despite some rough seas early on, the trip was a great success. Highlights included several Black-footed Albatross, South Polar Skua, Buller’s Shearwater, Pomarine Jaeger, Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel, Sabine’s Gull, and a Short-tailed Shearwater. We saw dozens of Sooty and Pink-footed Shearwater cruising the waves, and we had several humpback whales give us a nice show. For a complete trip list, please visit the Pelagic page.
Posted: September 18, 2011
4th Western Hemisphere Shorebird Group Meeting
In mid-August, WildResearch assisted with organizing the field trips for the 4th Western Hemisphere Shorebird Group Meeting. The meeting was held at Simon Fraser University and was attended by approximately 150 shorebird biologists from North and South America and Europe. WildResearch offered three field trips for the meeting participants to birding hotspots in the Lower Mainland.
Posted: August 16, 2011
Shorebird surveys of the Tofino Mudflats
WildResearch partnered with Environment Canada and Raincoast Education Society to carry out shorebird surveys of the Tofino Mudflats Wildlife Management Area in Tofino, BC. Species observed included large numbers of Western and Least Sandpiper, Dunlin, Short-billed Dowitcher, and Whimbrel, as well as Marbled Godwit, Semipalmated Plover, and Black-bellied Plover.
Posted: May 16, 2011