Common nighthawk
In their species of interest report at http://issuu.com/capitalregionaldistrict/docs/ivbnep-species?e=2590922/10796110 the CRD devote 6 of the 32 pages to the Common Nighthawk which they say is "confirmed resident" in Island View Beach Regional Park. The photos shown however were taken at James island, not at Island View Beach Regional park.
We have been unable to confirm ourselves that the Common Nighthawk is resident here. The Cordova Conservation Strategy which was a CRD funded and managed 5 year project released in 2010, looked at birds on the Cordova Shore which includes Island View Beach Regional Park. This CRD report says at Appendix 5, that the Common Nighthawk is a "rare fall migrant - possibly nesting at the spit". The reference to "spit" being to Cordova Spit. It makes no suggestion the Common Nighthawk as being in Island View Beach Regional park. See Appendix 5 of the Cordova Conservation Strategy
We made many requests of the CRD to provide us with factual evidence that the Common Nighthawk is confirmed resident in the park, and they have not provide us with this. See our requests here
We did receive from the CRD an email dated July 2015 from a birder who reported hearing a Common Nighthawk in the evening "... came from the north, hunted for several minutes in the area then returned north." Coming from the north and returning to the north, supports the Cordova Strategy supposition above that the Common Nighthawk is "possibly nesting at the spit". The CRD had been told by the BC Conservation Data Centre by email on November 21, 2014 that a nest "is the minimum criteria for making an EO in many bird species ...".
We have been unable to confirm ourselves that the Common Nighthawk is resident here. The Cordova Conservation Strategy which was a CRD funded and managed 5 year project released in 2010, looked at birds on the Cordova Shore which includes Island View Beach Regional Park. This CRD report says at Appendix 5, that the Common Nighthawk is a "rare fall migrant - possibly nesting at the spit". The reference to "spit" being to Cordova Spit. It makes no suggestion the Common Nighthawk as being in Island View Beach Regional park. See Appendix 5 of the Cordova Conservation Strategy
We made many requests of the CRD to provide us with factual evidence that the Common Nighthawk is confirmed resident in the park, and they have not provide us with this. See our requests here
We did receive from the CRD an email dated July 2015 from a birder who reported hearing a Common Nighthawk in the evening "... came from the north, hunted for several minutes in the area then returned north." Coming from the north and returning to the north, supports the Cordova Strategy supposition above that the Common Nighthawk is "possibly nesting at the spit". The CRD had been told by the BC Conservation Data Centre by email on November 21, 2014 that a nest "is the minimum criteria for making an EO in many bird species ...".