Environmental Information Management System

Name: Canada Warbler

Phylum: Craniata

Class: Aves

Order: Passeriformes

Family: Parulidae

Scientific: Cardellina canadensis

• Deciduous dominated forests (Birch, aspen, mature spruce and balsam poplar stands) wet sites or riverside slopes.
• Forests with a dense, deciduous shrub layer, complex understory, and available perch trees.
• Nest on or near the ground in mossy logs or stumps, streambanks, grassy hummocks.
• Mature deciduous upperslope forest in the Fort Nelson lowlands.

• 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.
• Within identified habitat, maintain patches of intact structurally complex deciduous-leading forests >4 hectares.
• Within riparian areas, retain the RMA where possible. Retaining generous riparian corridors (i.e., riparian management areas) of suitable habitat may help retain connectivity at the landscape level.
• 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.

 

Seismic

• Minimize impacts to ground and understory.
• Maintain structural complexity of forested areas.

 

Timing considerations when working within identified habitat:

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