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The BC Coastal Waterbird Survey aims to coordinate the efforts of people who care about waterbirds in British Columbia. Anyone who can identify coastal waterbird species in their area can participate in the BC Coastal Waterbird Survey! The goal of such coordinated collective efforts is the conservation of coastal waterbird populations in British Columbia.
The coastlines of British Columbia are of international importance for waterbirds, especially during winter when vast numbers of loons, grebes, cormorants, herons, swans, geese, ducks, shorebirds, and gulls can be found feeding and roosting in bays, estuaries and along the rocky inter-tidal beaches of the BC coast. Thousands of individual birds of many different species use the sheltered near-shore waters, the expansive wetland areas and estuarine habitats to roost, to feed, to over-winter and to stop and restore their fuel supplies during long migratory journeys.
With the coastlines of BC under increasing pressure from development and human population expansion, long-term data on the abundance and distribution of waterbird species will enable us to monitor and track changes in waterbird populations and habitat use.
All photos copyrighted by Richard Cannings
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