Chaplin and Reed Lake Shorebird Survey Dataset

Chaplin and Reed Lake Shorebird Survey Dataset is an open dataset from Environment and Climate Change Canada with 6 files (CSV, HTML); catalogue record updated 2026-10-02. On CanQuery you can open 4 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.

This dataset contains the point count surveys for migrating shorebirds in southern Saskatchewan from 2014-2025 (spring migration surveys at Chaplin Lake and Reed Lake) and 2016-2025 (fall migration surveys at Chaplin Lake). Migrating shorebirds were surveyed weekly during the spring (mid-May to mid-June) and fall (mid-July to mid-September) migration seasons at 24 survey points (18 at Chaplin Lake, 6 at Reed Lake). Surveys were carried out on foot, or from a stationary vehicle during daylight hours, with observers identifying and recording all shorebirds seen within 0-200m and 200-500m of the survey points. These surveys are important for monitoring shorebird population trends of Arctic breeding shorebirds which migrate through southern Saskatchewan each year. These sites represent areas where a high number of shorebirds concentrate and stopover, making these surveys important for population monitoring. When these shorebirds breed in the Arctic, it is very remote and difficult to access and survey, and the birds are much more spread out, meaning to survey the name number of individuals you would have to cover much more ground and at greater cost and effort. These surveys in…

Publisher

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Resources

6

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-10-02