Vancouver Island Marmot (Marmota vancouverensis)
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Vancouver Island marmots are chocolate brown with a paler muzzle and often some white hairs on the forehead, chin and sometimes on the undersides. Males, which are larger than females, average about 3.5 kg (8 lb.).
The Vancouver Island marmot is a housecat-sized rodent weighing 3 - 6.5 kg (6.6 - 14.3 lb). It prefers sub-alpine open areas above 1000 m (3300'), in south to west-facing meadows. The flowering parts of alpine plants are its preferred food.
Vancouver Island marmot
Class: Mammalia
Status: Critically endangered
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Vancouver Island marmot (Marmota vancouverensis)
This house-cat sized marmot or ground squirrel was first described in 1910. It is currently regarded as one of the rarest mammals of North... More 13 Images 0 videos ...
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Black Bear, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
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Black Bear with cubs. Alaska.
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Vancouver Island Marmot
Sexual Dimorphism:
Males are larger than females.
Green Anemone, Vancouver Island
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Prey capture by peregrine falcons wintering on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Journal of Raptor Research. 29(1): 26-29. [70779] 52. Dhillion, Shivcharn S.; Mills, Michele H. 1999.
alascensis breeds (probably resident) from southeastern coastal Alaska to the Queen Charlotte Islands and Vancouver Island in British Columbia.[6]
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There are no breeding grounds for California sea lions near Vancouver Island. In fact, their closest breeding grounds are in Oregon. There are breeding grounds for Stellar sea lion off Vancouver Island.
Many Anna's Hummingbirds in coastal California, Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island do not migrate at all, and a year-round feeder usually means year-round birds.
swarthi is restricted to Vancouver Island.
G. c. grinnelli stretches along the West Coast of North America from S.E. Alaska all the way to S. California.
G. c. californicum is the most widespread race in North America.
California sea lions are found from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to the southern tip of Baja California in Mexico.
In North America, exotic range: Vancouver Island and adjacent British Columbia and Washington and near Salt Lake City, Utah; native range: most of eastern North America east of central Oklahoma. Bronze frog is the more southern subspecies.
The densest concentration of pumas in North America is found on Vancouver Island in British Columbia , while in the United States their densest concentration is in the Ventana Wilderness in the Los Padres National Forest, California.
A third subspecies limited to Vancouver Island (G. g. vancouverensis) is also occasionally described. However craniomorphic evidence suggests that the Vancouver Island wolverines are properly included within G. g. luscus.
Photographed by:
1) Alan D Wilson at Black Creek, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia
3, 4) Alan at Black Creek, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia1)
2, 5) Dick Daniels in North Carolina 6) Dick in Maryland
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In North America, its breeding range spans Alaska's Aleutian Islands and southern mainland coast, as far south as Vancouver Island. In the Aleutians, the species can be locally common, breeding in over 50 locations.
Another possible subspecies on Vancouver Island, Canada: G. gulo vancouverensis. This population has skull morphology differences with those found on the mainland, but their status has yet to be decided.
Bimastos lawrenceae on Vancouver Island) and the United States (e.g. Eisenoides carolinensis, Eisenoides lonnbergi and most Bimastos spp.) and throughout Eurasia to Japan (e.g. Eisenia japonica, E. koreana and Helodrilus hachiojii).
They can be seen across much of southern British Columbia from west of the mountains to Vancouver Island. To the south it’s found along the coast to California.
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5 inches (10 to 11.5 cm)
Range:
Vancouver Island to Baja California, low intertidal to 300 feet (91 m)
Relatives:
snails, octopuses, bivalves; Phylum: Mollusca; Class: Gastropoda; Sub-class: Nudibranchia ...
Though the Skylark was doomed to extirpation in New York, a small population still exists in another of the many locations it was introduced to in North America, on Vancouver Island, and there is a small, ...
(The species Podarcis muralis - Common Wall Lizard, has also been introduced into the United States in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, and onto Vancouver Island in British Columbia, which you can see here.)
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The rainbow smelt is found in rivers and coastal areas of eastern North America from Labrador to New Jersey and on the west coast from Vancouver Island around Alaska to the Arctic Ocean.
The population around Prince William Sound, western Alaska/Bering Sea, and British Columbia/Puget Sound by Vancouver Island are believed to be around 300 for each area. Population estimates in the Antarctic range from 70,000 to 180,000.
White belly and undertail coverts
White outer tail feathers
White trailing edge to wing
Pink legs
North American range limited to Vancouver Island, British Columbia-stray elsewhere
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Attempts to introduce the bird into North America have failed, except on Vancouver Island. Skylarks are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Alaudidae.
(1984) found average territory sizes of 638 square kilometers; and in coastal forests of Vancouver Island, Atkinson and Janz (1994) found territory sizes from 100 to 400 square kilometers.
urchins can release a chemical cue that causes the young to aggregate underneath them when the adults detect the presence of certain kinds of starfish. Some research suggests that urchins can live over 100 years, and found some near Vancouver Island ...
Checklist of Vancouver Island Birds by Keith Taylor
Colorado Birds A Reference to their Distribution and Habitat by R. Andrews and R. Righter
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The northern sea otter is native to Alaska and the North West of the Pacific. The northern sea otter was wiped out from the coast of British Columbia due to over hunting but has been recently reintroduced to Vancouver Island.
Their range is rather limited. They can be found in various forests on Vancouver Island and other surrounding islands in British Columbia. In the United states they are found along the coast from Oregon to northern California.
Grey whales then return north to the Bering Sea which takes another 2-3 months. On the northward journey mothers and calves stay near shore the whole time. Some grey whales can be seen year round between Washington and the Vancouver Island and off ...
 See also: Diver, Reptile, Ermine, Whale, Eland
  
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