The large fish-eating birds with elongated bills have been seen at Cattle Point in Oak Bay, Panama Flats and Swan Lake in Saanich and in North Saanich near Victoria International Airport.
Birders are aflutter after several sightings of squadrons of endangered American white pelicans over parts of Vancouver Island.
And they’ve been becoming a more common sight in these parts in late May and June since 2014, she said. In British Columbia, the birds are red-listed and designated as endangered because of their single breeding and nesting site. Fires in the B.C. Interior this year may be delaying their return to traditional nesting areas, said Nightingale, or it’s quite possible they could be looking for new areas if their traditional nesting sites are compromised by fire or smoke.She said it’s also possible that some species of birds might forgo nesting. Depending on the circumstances of the health of their traditional nesting areas, it may be a year they don’t reproduce, she said.
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