Archived Video of Marine and Terrestrial Birds at Race Rocks

Nesting Seabirds, Migrating stopover species, and winter roosting species are portrayed in these videos.

 

 Overwintering Blk. Oystercatchers. behaviour
( 4 videos)
 Blk. Oystercatcher feeding in the intertidal zone.  Black Oystercatcher nesting behaviour  Black Oystercatchers on hatching day
 
Pigeon Guillemots on the western side of Race Rocks Cepphus columba   Pigeon Guillemots Cepphus columba
Taxonomy File
Feeding by Guillemot Cepphus columba
Taxonomy File
 Pigeon Guillemot scenes on Land and water. Cepphus columba
 
Harlequin Ducks overwintering Histrionicus histrionicus
Taxonomy File
 The Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseus
Taxonomy file
 Black Turnstones Arenaria melanocephala  Ruddy Turnstone  Arenaria interpres
The Glaucous winged Gull feeding .–four videos in the Taxonomy file David and Satoshi,did a live webcasting project, making videos of gull behavior   May 1: Breeding in the gull colony has started and will continue throughout May and June.  August 2003- A helicopter causes adult gulls to attack scattering chicks = heavy mortality
   
Barn Swallows nesting at Race Rocks  North Western Crow Corvus caurinaus  Eagles congregate at Race Rocks in January.
Taxonomy file
Juvenile Eagle eating a harbour seal
   
slideshows of Peregrine Falcon by Pam Birley  Brandt’s Cormorants Thayer’s gulls over-wintering  Great Blue Heron Ardea herodius