Migratory Bird Sanctuary · can
Banks Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary No. 1
- Area
- 827 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
2 distinct species · 2 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydrology8 basins · 4 lakes · 1 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Lake surface here
1,92km²
Basins crossed
8
Max stream order
1
Max drainage
3 746km²
Discharge in basins
0,0m³/s
Mean precip.
116mm/an
Mean T°
-14,0°C
Moisture idx
-0,37
Max snow
74%
Mean runoff
135mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
42m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Nasogaluak Riversub-area1 190,4 km²overlap16.32 km²2%
- Bassin de Sachs Riversub-area582,6 km²overlap4.36 km²1%
- Basin #23010sub-area350,4 km²overlap3.75 km²0%
- Bassin de Adam Riversub-area1 909,2 km²overlap3.72 km²0%
- Bassin de Kellett Riversub-area2 540 km²overlap0.68 km²0%
- Basin #23050sub-area267,1 km²overlap0.34 km²0%
- Basin #23160sub-area231,1 km²overlap0.12 km²0%
- Bassin de Lennie Riversub-area624,2 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
Lakes (4, top by area)
Rivers / streams (1, ord ≥ 4)
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
- 72.98427, -124.76739
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.