Download or read book Management Plan for the Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus Antiquus in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) is a small (about 25 cm long) seabird in the Alcidae family. It was assessed in April 1993 as Special Concern by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). It was re-examined in 2004 and confirmed as Special Concern due to introduced mammalian predation on the breeding islands. The species was listed on Schedule 1 of the Species at Risk Act (SARA) in 2006"--Executive summary, p. iii.
Download or read book Status Report on the Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus Antiquus in Canada written by Anthony J. Gaston and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus Antiquus in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Status of Ancient Murrelets synthliboramphus Antiquus and Upland Birds Following Eradication of Norway Rats rattus Norvegicus from Langara Island Haida Gwaii written by Mark C. Drever and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Status of Ancient Murrelets Breeding on Langara Island British Columbia in 1988 written by Bertram, Douglas F and published by Delta, B.C. : Canadian Wildlife Service. This book was released on 1989 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast written by Caroline Fox and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast tells the stories of conservation scientist Caroline Fox and the marine birds she studies as she sails along the Northwest Coast.
Download or read book Alaska Seabird Information Series ASIS written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compilation of seabird species accounts for all seabirds breeding in Alaska and five important nonbreeders. Conservation status, life history, distribution, population size and trends, conservation concerns, and recommended management actions are included in the accounts"--Leaf i.
Download or read book Occasional Paper Canadian Wildlife Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Status of Ancient Murrelets synthliboramphus Antiquus and Upland Birds Following Eradication of Norway Rats rattus Norvegicus from Langara Island Haida Gwaii written by Mark C. Drever and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1995 Peregrine Falcon Survey in Canada written by Ursula Banasch and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper is part of a series that reports the peer-reviewed results of original research carried out by members of the Canadian Wildlife Service or supported by the Service. Included in the series are monitoring studies of Canadian species, natural histories, status reports on human hunting activities, habitat research, and the effects of human activities and environmental toxins on wildlife.
Download or read book A Hidden Markov Modelling Approach to Understanding Ancient Murrelet Behaviour and Foraging Habitat written by Vivian Pattison and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seabird species are increasingly threatened around the world due to a range of anthropogenic impacts affecting at-sea and breeding habitat. One such species is the Ancient Murrelet, an Alcid species nesting on the Pacific Coast of Canada. Ancient Murrelets are an important species in Canadian waters as approximately 50 % of the world's breeding population nest in a small region of the British Columbia coast. Ancient Murrelets are listed as a species of Special Concern, due to threats in their breeding colonies; threats to their at-sea habitat, such as disturbance from shipping traffic, oil pollution, and fisheries bycatch, are currently poorly- documented due to the challenges associated with studying seabirds in their offshore environments. Conservation efforts to protect this species require information on movements and habitat use at sea. Therefore, there exists a critical need for research that provides new knowledge on where murrelets are travelling and the habitats in which they are foraging. The objective of this thesis research is to investigate movement behaviour and at-sea habitat of Ancient Murrelets during breeding season foraging trips. Movement modelling using hidden Markov models differentiated the tracks into behaviour states, and identified foraging locations at sea. Foraging locations were used in regression modelling to investigate the degree to which variability in Ancient Murrelet foraging locations could be explained by seafloor depth, slope and tidal current, and spatial measures such as distance from the breeding colony. From characteristics of movement paths, hidden Markov models identified three movement behaviour states, which were interpreted as transit, resting, and foraging behaviours. Logistic regression models suggested that depth, seafloor slope, tidal speed, and distance from the colony exhibited a negative influence on locations where birds chose to forage. Nevertheless, of the locations where foraging took place, foraging intensity was found to be higher in deeper areas suggesting Ancient Murrelets may be focusing efforts in areas of higher prey abundance. The combination of individual movement analysis and habitat analysis provides an important first step in gaining a greater understanding of Ancient Murrelet behaviour and foraging habitat at sea. These findings can inform marine management planning in this region and conservation of this vulnerable species.
Download or read book Politics of the Wild written by Karen Beazley and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics of the Wild details the 353 species at risk in Canada and considers both the intrinsic and the instrumental reasons for protecting biological diversity. It examines the need for habitat protection, terrestrial protected areas such as national parks, marine species at risk, and the various legislative and interest group attempts to preserve biodiversity. Public policy on endangered species is considered from both historical and comparative perspectives, as is Canada's role in establishing international agreements--the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and the Convention on Biological Diversity--and the government's failure in recent years to meet the obligations of these and other environmental agreements. The final chapter looks at the Species at Risk Act (SARA) and its recent predecessor, Bill C-65, and reveals the difficulties of crafting and passing such legislation in an increasingly decentralized federal state such as Canada. Both legislative attempts were criticized--by the environmental policy community for not doing enough, and by the provinces and business for trying to do too much. All the while, diverse regional interests and economic imperatives run the risk of endangering far more than merely Canadian species at risk.
Download or read book Waterbirds Around the World written by G. C. Boere and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the outcome of a major international conference on waterbirds held in Edinburgh in April 2004.
Download or read book The Canadian Encyclopedia written by James H. Marsh and published by The Canadian Encyclopedia. This book was released on 1999 with total page 2652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of "The Canadian Encyclopedia is the largest, most comprehensive book ever published in Canada for the general reader. It is COMPLETE: every aspect of Canada, from its rock formations to its rock bands, is represented here. It is UNABRIDGED: all of the information in the four red volumes of the famous 1988 edition is contained here in this single volume. It has been EXPANDED: since 1988 teams of researchers have been diligently fleshing out old entries and recording new ones; as a result, the text from 1988 has grown by 50% to over 4,000,000 words. It has been UPDATED: the researchers and contributors worked hard to make the information as current as possible. Other words apply to this extraordinary work of scholarship: AUTHORITATIVE, RELIABLE and READABLE. Every entry is compiled by an expert. Equally important, every entry is written for a Canadian reader, from the Canadian point of view. The finished work - many years in the making, and the equivalent of forty average-sized books - is an extraordinary storehouse of information about our country. This book deserves pride of place on the bookshelf in every Canadian Home. It is no accident that the cover of this book is based on the Canadian flag. For the proud truth is that this volume represents a great national achievement. From its formal inception in 1979, this encyclopedia has always represented a vote of faith in Canada; in Canada as a separate place whose natural worlds and whose peoples and their achievements deserve to be recorded and celebrated. At the start of a new century and a new millennium, in an increasingly borderless corporate world that seems ever more hostile to nationaldistinctions and aspirations, this "Canadian Encyclopedia is offered in a spirit of defiance and of faith in our future. The statistics behind this volume are staggering. The opening sixty pages list the 250 Consultants, the roughly 4,000 Contributors (all experts in the field they describe) and the scores of researchers, editors, typesetters, proofreaders and others who contributed their skills to this massive project. The 2,640 pages incorporate over 10,000 articles and over 4,000,000 words, making it the largest - some might say the greatest - Canadian book ever published. There are, of course, many special features. These include a map of Canada, a special page comparing the key statistics of the 23 major Canadian cities, maps of our cities, a variety of tables and photographs, and finely detailed illustrations of our wildlife, not to mention the colourful, informative endpapers. But above all the book is "encyclopedic" - which the "Canadian Oxford Dictionary describes as "embracing all branches of learning." This means that (with rare exceptions) there is satisfaction for the reader who seeks information on any Canadian subject. From the first entry "A mari usque ad mare - "from sea to sea" (which is Canada's motto, and a good description of this volume's range) to the "Zouaves (who mustered in Quebec to fight for the beleaguered Papacy) there is the required summary of information, clearly and accurately presented. For the browser the constant variety of entries and the lure of regular cross-references will provide hours of fasination. The word "encyclopedia" derives from Greek expressions alluding to a grand "circle of knowledge." Our knowledge has expandedimmeasurably since the time that one mnd could encompass all that was known.Yet now Canada's finest scientists, academics and specialists have distilled their knowledge of our country between the covers of one volume. The result is a book for every Canadian who values learning, and values Canada.
Download or read book The Ecology Status and Conservation of Marine and Shoreline Birds of the Queen Charlotte Islands written by Kees Vermeer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a synthesis on the ecology, status, and conservation of marine and shoreline birds of the Queen Charlotte Islands, compiling papers on various disciplines to provide a review of what is currently known about the Islands' marine biology, with a particular emphasis on birds. The papers are presented in five sections: the physical and biological environment and prey organisms, including physical oceanography, zooplankton distribution and availability, and marine fishes as prey; nesting populations of marine birds and distribution of birds at sea; distribution and association of marine waterfowl, including papers on the distribution and ecology of Branta bernicla; seasonality and nesting of shorebirds; and introduced predators and toxic chemicals.
Download or read book The Condor written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
