New Species added to the James Bay Islands Birdlist:
Horned Grebe, Wood Duck, Spruce Grouse, Yellow Rail, Solitary Sandpiper, Great Black-backed Gull, Mourning Dove, Common Nighthawk, Three-toed Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Cape May Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Pine Siskin, Harris' Sparrow, and American Goldfinch
Other neat stuff:
-Four European Starlings: Charlton Island, 1992
-A pair of Gray Catbirds and a Brown Thrasher: Trodely Island 1993
-A male Wood Duck: Strutton Island 1995: first confirmed record for NWT
-Double-crested Cormorant colony discovered on McNab Island, Rupert Bay (cute babies, yes?)
-Gyrfalcon well south of its normal summer range: Mishib Island, 1997
-14 Great Black-backed Gulls: northeast James Bay, 1997
-Nesting Purple Sandpipers, Common Eiders, Red-necked Phalaropes, and Black Guillemots
Neat Mammals:
-Beluga Whales
-Ringed Seals
-Bearded Seals
-Arctic Fox
-the world's southernmost Polar Bear dens
Established World Record 'Big Day': American Birding Association's Big Day
Record for Highest Number of Species seen in one day in Nunavut: June 24, 1995, Strutton Island: 54 species. Darrell Parsons and Rob Tymstra again broke the record in June, 2002 on Akimiski Island: 63 species in one day.
