Migratory Bird Sanctuary · can
Banks Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary No. 1
- Area
- 19 374 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1961
Overview
- Designation
- Migratory Bird Sanctuary
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1961
- Managing authority
- Canadian Wildlife Service, Northern Region
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
468 distinct species · 2 198 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Banks Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary No. 1 : 26 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology34 basins · 50 lakes · 20 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
1 046,9km
Lake surface here
131,64km²
Basins crossed
34
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
11 134km²
Discharge in basins
136,6m³/s
Mean precip.
122mm/an
Mean T°
-14,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,31
Max snow
76%
Mean runoff
135mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
110m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Adam Riversub-area1 909,2 km²overlap1864.38 km²10%
- Bassin de Big Riversub-area2 653,2 km²overlap1805.72 km²9%
- Bassin de Bernard Riversub-area2 192,7 km²overlap1773.55 km²9%
- Bassin de Kellett Riversub-area2 540 km²overlap1744.00 km²9%
- Bassin de Egg Riversub-area1 196,3 km²overlap1205.52 km²6%
- Bassin de Nasogaluak Riversub-area1 190,4 km²overlap1183.33 km²6%
- Basin #69380sub-area1 035,6 km²overlap1043.69 km²5%
- Bassin de Bernard Riversub-area2 140,6 km²overlap1035.87 km²5%
- Basin #69690sub-area723 km²overlap728.63 km²4%
25 more basinssorted by overlap
- Basin #69450sub-area637,7 km²overlap642.72 km²3%
- Bassin de Sungukpagaluk Riversub-area633,2 km²overlap638.15 km²3%
- Bassin de Lennie Riversub-area624,2 km²overlap629.00 km²3%
- Bassin de White Fox Riversub-area584,8 km²overlap589.30 km²3%
- Bassin de Sachs Riversub-area582,6 km²overlap517.32 km²3%
- Basin #69600sub-area443,2 km²overlap446.68 km²2%
- Bassin de White Fox Riversub-area427 km²overlap430.31 km²2%
- Bassin de Big Riversub-area362,9 km²overlap365.74 km²2%
- Basin #23010sub-area350,4 km²overlap349.34 km²2%
- Bassin de Sachs Riversub-area860 km²overlap346.96 km²2%
- Bassin de Storkerson Riversub-area317 km²overlap319.51 km²2%
- Bassin de Bernard Riversub-area1 551,5 km²overlap278.26 km²1%
- Basin #23050sub-area267,1 km²overlap268.85 km²1%
- Basin #69470sub-area264,9 km²overlap266.98 km²1%
- Basin #23160sub-area231,1 km²overlap232.73 km²1%
- Bassin de Big Riversub-area185,9 km²overlap187.34 km²1%
- Bassin de Bernard Riversub-area238,9 km²overlap127.14 km²1%
- Bassin de Bernard Riversub-area241,2 km²overlap92.77 km²0%
- Basin #69410sub-area67,3 km²overlap67.85 km²0%
- Bassin de Storkerson Riversub-area26,1 km²overlap26.31 km²0%
- Basin #22950sub-area49,9 km²overlap13.47 km²0%
- Bassin de Bernard Riversub-area819,1 km²overlap2.88 km²0%
- Bassin de Nahsa Riversub-area1 495 km²overlap0.86 km²0%
- Basin #23270sub-area1 433,8 km²overlap0.54 km²0%
- Bassin de Bernard Riversub-area1 256,4 km²overlap0.17 km²0%
Lakes (50, top by area)
- Middle Lakearea12,4 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Twenty-Five Minute Lakearea8,7 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Raddi Lakearea7,4 km²avg depth8.4 m
- Fish Lakearea6,5 km²avg depth3.6 m
- Lake #17512area6,4 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Capron Lakearea5,7 km²avg depth6.5 m
- Lake #18363area5,4 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Kuptan Lakearea5,3 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lake #18651area4,9 km²avg depth3.2 m
41 more lakes
- Lake #18667area4,8 km²avg depth2.4 m
- Lake #17756area4,8 km²avg depth7.7 m
- Lake #17872area2,9 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lake #17532area2,5 km²avg depth4.4 m
- Lake #18340area2,3 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lake #17487area2,2 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lake #17499area2,2 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lake #18723area2 km²avg depth9.0 m
- Lake #17564area2 km²avg depth3.0 m
- Lake #18663area1,9 km²avg depth6.3 m
- Lake #18751area1,9 km²avg depth7.6 m
- Siksik Lakearea1,8 km²avg depth8.9 m
- Kudlak Lakearea1,8 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lake #18442area1,8 km²avg depth1.8 m
- Lake #18094area1,8 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lake #17729area1,7 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lake #17525area1,7 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lake #17709area1,7 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lake #17614area1,7 km²avg depth6.0 m
- Lake #17399area1,7 km²avg depth1.8 m
- Lake #18722area1,6 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lake #18715area1,5 km²avg depth2.1 m
- Survey Lakearea1,5 km²avg depth5.6 m
- Lake #17996area1,5 km²avg depth4.4 m
- Lake #17498area1,4 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lake #17812area1,4 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lake #17521area1,4 km²avg depth2.1 m
- Lake #19040area1,3 km²avg depth5.9 m
- Lake #18239area1,3 km²avg depth6.4 m
- Lake #18228area1,3 km²avg depth6.8 m
- Storkerson Lakearea1,3 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lake #18338area1,3 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Angus Lakearea1,2 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lake #18353area1,2 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lake #17453area1,2 km²avg depth2.5 m
- Lake #18413area1,1 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lake #17890area1 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lake #18730area1 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 203889area1 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 189874area0,9 km²avg depth6.3 m
- Lac 190459area0,9 km²avg depth3.1 m
Rivers / streams (20, ord ≥ 4)
- Kellett Riverord 3len here202.18 km76%total266 km
- Big Riverord 4len here162.38 km62%total263 km
- Bernard Riverord 5len here130.26 km33%total394 km
- Egg Riverord 4len here78.15 km100%total78 km
- Sungukpagaluk Riverord 4len here77.83 km100%total78 km
- White Fox Riverord 4len here72.43 km100%total72 km
- Lennie Riverord 2len here48.34 km100%total48 km
- Saningayualuk Riverord 3len here45.83 km100%total46 km
- Storkerson Riverord 3len here38.82 km100%total39 km
- Apian Creekord 3len here36.11 km100%total36 km
- Sachs Riverord 2len here30.81 km100%total31 km
- Sachs Riverord 4len here25.60 km100%total26 km
8 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Kellett Riverord 1len here21.75 km100%total22 km
- Adam Riverord 2len here18.99 km100%total19 km
- Kaligaluk Riverord 1len here15.80 km100%total16 km
- Coyote Riverord 2len here11.41 km37%total31 km
- Rotten Creekord 4len here10.07 km100%total10 km
- Sachs Riverord 1len here7.96 km100%total8 km
- Nasogaluak Riverord 1len here7.13 km100%total7 km
- Wolf Creekord 2len here5.09 km100%total5 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 72.62250, -123.45988
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.