Submitted by Gwaii Haanas Archipelago Co-Chairs Suudahl Cindy Boyko and Nang Kaa Klaagangs Ernie Gladstone This article includes Xaayda kil. Here on Haida Gwaii, we are familiar with the story of kuu sea otter. Until […]
Rhonda Lee McIsaac — The Stubby squid, Rossia pacifica of the sepiolid family of cephalopods, was recently observed in the milky green waters of southern Haida Gwaii during the Haida Fisheries Program herring survey. […]
Rhonda Lee McIsaac — Pinpointing a stads k’un goshawk and its nest is a challenge, but it’s one that Robert Kennedy, Gerry Morigeau and the Cultural Features Identification (CFI) crews have taken on in […]
Graham Richard — Gaaw Xaad Kil: Sgadaang HlGaagilda Xaayda Kil: sgaada.nga When Xaw’s North Wind son brought the daughter of Xyuu Southeaster to live at his father’s house, she found it covered in icicles. These […]
A migrating group of 8 kun humpback whales put on a show for Dave Wahl’s grade 7 graduating class who were travelling to T’aalan Stl’ang this week. The intelligent kun were bubble net feeding on iinang herring and […]
Rhonda Lee McIsaac — Pinnipeds (emuud seal, kay sea lion, and walruses), rodents, and insectivores like jiigwal awGa shrews have sk‘yuuwan whiskers. These sk‘yuuwan are a sensory organ with a muscle structure that allows them to individually […]
Xaayda Kil: Tl’lhlk’yah English: Common Merganser (female) Latin: Mergus merganser In Haida Gwaii tl’lhlk’yah are common breeding residents. Males and females look entirely different in breeding plumage, but during their non-breeding ‘eclipse’ from July to […]
Research Group on Introduced Species (RGIS) — White-nose Syndrome (WNS) was introduced into North America in 2006. It is a fungal disease which grows on hibernating bats, forcing them to wake from their slumber to […]
— Rhonda Lee McIsaac Gaaw Xaad Kil: Kun HlGaagilda Xaayda Kil: Kun English: Humpback Whale Latin: Megaptera novaeangliae (large winged) Kun Humpback whale are baleen whales, a filter feeder, and one of 76 cetacean species. […]
English: Red-shafted flicker Hlgaagilda Xaayda Kil: Sgalts’id Latin: Colaptes auratus cafer Sgalts’id is a charismatic woodpecker with a large migratory range throughout the western half of north and central America. Due to its prevalence across […]
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