Location
Key Information
| 159 km2 | MARINE AREA |
| 161 km2 | TOTAL AREA i |
Regulations: Government of Canada
Boundary: Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (Unmodified)
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July 2023
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Purpose
The Anderson River Delta Migratory Bird Sanctuary, located 160 kilometres east of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, supports an impressively wide diversity of bird species. A total of 104 species use the sanctuary during their lifecycle, including 76 species that breed within the sanctuary. During the spring and fall, the shallow waters of Wood Bay are ideal feeding habitat for several thousand scaup, long-tailed ducks, white-winged scoters and red-breasted mergansers, while, during the summer months, the delta offers extensive feeding grounds for sandpipers, plovers, phalaropes and other shorebirds. The presence of trees within the sanctuary attracts many species that are considered to be at the northern limit of their range in North America such as warblers, thrushes, swallows and sparrows. The great variety of plant life in this area also attracts a high diversity of songbirds (passerines).
Species of Concern: scaup, long-tailed duck, white-winged scoter, red-breasted merganser
Regulations Summary
Restrictions
The primary purpose of Migratory Bird Sanctuaries is the protection of migratory birds from killing, harm and harassment during a critical part of their life cycle, such as breeding, nesting, moulting, or staging and stopover during their migration. Unless a permit has been issued by the Minister of the Environment authorizing such activity, the Regulations prohibit the following activities in a Migratory Bird Sanctuary:
1. no person shall hunt migratory birds;
2. no person shall disturb, destroy or take the nests of migratory birds;
3. no person shall have in their possession a live migratory bird, or a carcass, skin, nest or egg of a migratory bird (a resident of a Migratory Bird Sanctuary may have in their possession migratory birds lawfully killed outside a Migratory Bird Sanctuary);
4.no person shall have in their possession in a Migratory Bird Sanctuary any firearm; or any hunting appliance except as otherwise provided in these Regulations (does not apply to residents of a Migratory Bird Sanctuary);
5. no person shall permit a dog or cat to run at large in a Migratory Bird Sanctuary;
6. no person shall carry on any activity that is harmful to migratory birds or the eggs, nests or habitat of migratory birds, except under the authority of a permit for those Migratory Bird Sanctuaries on provincial, territorial and federal lands.
Allowed
1. First Nations have a right to access and hunt within the sanctuary.