East Bay Migratory Bird Sanctuary
| East Bay Migratory Bird Sanctuary | |
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| Location | Southampton Island, Kivalliq, Nunavut, Canada |
| Nearest town | Coral Harbor |
| Area | 1,138 km2 (439 sq mi) |
| Established | 1959 |
The East Bay Migratory Bird Sanctuary is a migratory bird sanctuary in Kivalliq, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in East Bay, an arm of Hudson Bay, in southeast Southampton Island. The nearest community is Coral Harbour, 44 mi (71 km) to the west.[1] It is one of two bird sanctuaries on the island, the other being the Harry Gibbons Migratory Bird Sanctuary, situated 87 mi (140 km) to the southwest.[1]
Established 1 January 1959, and consisting of 113,800 hectares[2] it is rated Category IV by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Of its 1,138 km2 (439 sq mi) in overall size, 1,664 km2 (642 sq mi) is a marine area with marine, intertidal, and subtidal components.[3]
Flora
The sanctuary's habitat consists of dry heath, gravel ridge, intertidal zone, moss carpet, scrub willow, and sedge meadow.[4]
Bird species
Notable bird species include:[5]
- Arctic tern
- Atlantic brant
- Black-bellied plover
- Black guillemot
- Canada goose
- Common eider
- Golden plover
- Herring gull
- Jaeger
- King eider
- Lesser snow goose
- Long-tailed duck
- Red knot
- Red phalarope
- Red-throated loon
- Ruddy turnstone
- Sabines gull
- Semipalmated plover
- White-rumped sandpiper
Other designations
East Bay/Native Bay is a Canadian Important Bird Area (#NU023) and a Key Migratory Bird Terrestrial Habitat (NU Site 44).[5]
References
- ^ a b "The Living Edens: Arctic Oasis". pbs.org. Retrieved 2009-05-05. Cite error: The named reference "pbs" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ "Nunavut Migratory Bird Sanctuary Facts". cws-scf.ec.gc.ca. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
- ^ "East Bay Migratory Bird Sanctuary". mpaglobal.org. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ^ Pickavance, J.R. (September 2006). "The Spiders of East Bay, Southampton Island, Nunavut, Canada" (PDF). Arctic. 59 (3): 276–282.
- ^ a b "East Bay/Native Bay". bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
- East Bay Bird Sanctuary at the Atlas of Canada
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