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Plectrophenax nivalis: Snow Bunting –The Race Rocks Taxonomy

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Laas Parnell took these pictures of Snow Buntings on November 9, 2017. Pam Birley had been the only one to take pictures of them previously in 2005 and 2007 on the remote cameras at Race Rocks.

This is a very pale Snow Bunting . Snow Buntings are uncommon around Victoria and best seen in late fall-early winter, so any bunting in February is unusual. This is only the fourth Snow Bunting record for the Rocky Point Bird Observatory checklist. The last picture is a poor image through a blurry remote camera 5 housing,but the only one we have so far of a male snow bunting which was taken by Pam in March 2007.
Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Sub-Phylum Vertebrata
Class Aves
Order Passerifomes
Family Emberizidae
Genus Plectrophenax
Species nivalis
Common Name: Snow Bunting
Other Members of the Class Aves at Race Rocks.


Images of Snow buntings by Laas Parnell–Ecoguardian at Race Rocks

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and Image File
pearsonlogo2_f2The Race Rocks taxonomy is a collaborative venture originally started with the Biology and Environmental Systems students of Lester Pearson College UWC. It now also has contributions added by Faculty, Staff, Volunteers and Observers on the remote control webcams.
 Garry Fletcher

Pollicipes polymerus – Nakwakto variety of goose-neck barnacle-The Race Rocks Taxonomy

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Image by Garry Fletcher,September 7, 2011
This is the first image taken of this variety of gooseneck barnacle at Race Rocks. On the tidal energy generator which was removed in 2011. Two clumps of these barnacles were collected from a join in the housing materials. In Lamb and Hanby, Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest, they state the following:“—Nakwakto goose-neck barnacle, a large and colourful variation of the goose neck barnacle found inlNakwakto Rapids, Slingsby Channel, BC. The glorious red colour is actually the hemoglobin in the barnacle’s blood. The blood is obvious in subtidal specimens like these which do not have black pigment that which protects the sun-exposed populations inhabiting shallow or intertidal zones. Familiar to an ever-increasing number of recreational divers, the unique and isolated population must be preserved via a No-Take Marine Protected Area.”

Link to the regular taxonomy and image file for the more common  Pollicepes polymerus

Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Order Thoracia
Suborder Lepadomorpha
Family Scalpellidae
Genus Pollicepes
Species polymerus
Common Name: Goose neck Barnacle Nakwakto (variety)

 

Other Members of the Phylum Arthropoda at Race Rocks 
taxonomyiconReturn to the Race Rocks Taxonomy
and Image File
pearsonlogo2_f2The Race Rocks taxonomy is a collaborative venture originally started with the Biology and Environmental Systems students of Lester Pearson College UWC. It now also has contributions added by Faculty, Staff, Volunteers and Observers on the remote control webcams.

 September 2011- Ryan Murphy