Environmental Information Management System

Name: Cape May Warbler

Phylum: Craniata

Class: Aves

Order: Passeriformes

Family: Parulidae

Scientific: Setophaga tigrina

• Mature to old white spruce forests (80-140+ years), pure stands or mixed with balsam poplar, aspens, birch, willow, alder, and lodgepole pine, used for nesting and foraging.
• Tall spruce trees that extend above the main canopy are used by singing males
• Nesting and foraging 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 forest patches >5 ha within identified 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.