Lead Institution(s): Canadian Wildlife Service
Collaborator(s): Cindy Wood (CWS), Myra Robertson (CWS)
Focal Species: Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)
Project Description: The objective of this project is to determine key breeding areas for common eiders in the Queen Maud Gulf region and to develop an operational, long-term monitoring program. Expanding surveys into this area will provide more complete coverage of the breeding range and better estimates of population size and trends to aid wildlife conservation and management decisions for the Pacific Common Eider in Canada. This addresses the SDJV priority to continue to develop survey techniques for effective monitoring of abundance and distribution of sea duck species and support exploratory surveys to fill gaps in our knowledge of sea duck distributions and relative abundance.
