Report submitted to: Dany Catt, FWR Instructor and Dr. Sean Boyd, Research Scientist, Canadian Wildlife Service, Delta, B.C. Submitted by: Colin Bailey & Stacey Carter. This survey is the sixth in a series of year long projects carried out by the Fish, Wildlife and Recreation students at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (B.C.I.T.), in cooperation with the Canadian Wildlife Service (C.W.S.) (Rotinsky, 1999) (Marshal et. al., 2003).
The study had three main objectives for the period of October 2004 to April 2005:
Determine the relative abundance and distribution of the Barrow's Goldeneye, Surf Scoters, and all other seabirds along the foreshore of Stanley Park.
Collect sex, age, and pairing data on the Barrow's Goldeneye and Surf Scoters along the foreshore of Stanley Park.
Collect Global Positioning (G.P.S) data, defining all of the survey zones within the study area around the Stanley Park seawall.
