Yukon Boreal Waterfowl Monitoring Program

Yukon Boreal Waterfowl Monitoring Program is an open dataset from Environment and Climate Change Canada with 9 files (CSV, HTML, TXT, ZIP); catalogue record updated 2026-09-23. On CanQuery you can open 5 CSV or Excel files as tables, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

The main objective of the project is to develop a long-term monitoring program of the abundance, distribution and density of waterfowl, waterbirds and their habitat in the Yukon. The survey is designed to estimate population trends and abundance for waterfowl (i.e. ducks, geese swans) and other waterbird species (i.e. grebes, loons) that are not being captured by other monitoring programs. General Methods: Waterfowl surveys are flown using a small helicopter (e.g. EC-120 or A-star 350SD) with two or three trained observers and a pilot. We follow standard operating procedures outlined in Roy et al (2022) based on Canadian Wildlife Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1987), and Bordage et al (2017). Flight track and observation data is recorded using mobile mapping software (PC-Mapper Air-borne Inspection/Inventory CMTINC.com (http://www.cmtinc.com/index.html). Observations of individual birds (and other wildlife e.g. mammals) are identified by species and sex, social group/status and total counts are recorded. Site Selection: Survey sites are chosen using the Boreal Optimal Sampling Strategy (BOSS) (Van Wilgenburg et al 2020) which was implemented nationally as a monitoring…

Publisher

Environment and Climate Change Canada

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9

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-09-23