Environmental Information Management System

Name: Bay-breasted Warbler

Phylum: Craniata

Class: Aves

Order: Passeriformes

Family: Parulidae

Scientific: Setophaga castanea

• Mature to old white spruce forests (80-140+ years), >5 ha.
• Pure stands or mixed with aspen, birch and poplar located upland or adjacent to riparian reserves.
• Nesting habitat: old spruce with dead lower branches, understory of high-bush cranberry, paper birch, dogwood or sitka alder.
• Nesting and foraging habitat requirements are similar, nesting habitat also tied to presence of spruce budworm.

• Minimize disturbance during the breeding season.
• Maintain nesting habitat throughout all seasons.
• Maintain desired plant communities and key habitat features.

All Activities

• Identify key habitat features using appropriate measures (i.e. QP direction, desktop review, field confirmation, etc) and plan activities within the operating area accordingly.
• Maintain unfragmented, mature pure or mixed spruce forest patches >5 ha within identified Bay-breasted Warbler habitat.
• Avoid activity within riparian areas that consist of mature coniferous or mixed wood forest.
• Avoid sensitive areas such as nest sites and foraging habitat.
• Time works such that they occur outside of the critical timing window.

All Activities

• Undertake construction and operation of oil and gas activities in a manner that minimizes impacts to desired plant communities and key habitat features.
   

Timing considerations when working within identified habitat:

• Avoid disturbance and/or clearing activities during the critical timing window from May 1 to July 31.