Harlequin Duck and waterbird winter surveys around the Wolves Islands, Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick

This data set contains boat-based winter waterbird surveys from the Wolves
archipelago in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick Canada. This area is a known
wintering location of the Eastern Canadian Harlequin Duck population (appr. 50
birds). Such Harlequin Duck winter surveys were carried out since long time on
an occasional and regular basis. The survey effort was shared between the
Canadian Wildlife Service, the Provincial Government of New Brunswick and
others. The surveys described here stem from wintering Razorbill surveys with
ACWERN (Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network) and CWS,
carried out by Falk Huettmann and colleagues in 1998. Surveys started at Blacks
Harbour, mainland New Brunswick. They were boat-based and reported all
waterbirds and sea mammals encountered. Most surveys were done during calm
weather and in the late morning and noon hours.

The purpose of the dataset is to provide general abundance information on
wintering Harlequin Ducks, waterbirds, seabirds and sea mammals for the Wolves
Archipelago in the Bay of Fundy.