Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Under XXXX an environmental assessment must always consider project impacts on listed wildlife species, their critical habitat or the residences of individuals of that species. An environmental effect is defined as any effect on species of concern and their habitat resulting from project activities. Figure 4.5 shows the various habitats associated with and surrounding the Project area. The potential for effects resulting from the execution of the Project on these areas, on listed wildlife species, their critical habitat, or the residences of individuals of that species, provides the ecological focus of this environmental assessment. The screening of the Atlantic CDC list acquired for areas within 100 km of the Donkin peninsula yielded a “long” list of 147 species that had been noted within this boundary (Appendix D). Consideration of the habitats in and adjacent to this Project site enabled this list to be reduced to 44 species, i.e., those species that might have a habitat requirement consistent with those on the Donkin peninsula. This “short” list of priority species, or species of concern, is presented in Table 4.12; the field teams were vigilant in striving to identify these species on the headland. Figures 4.5 and 4.6 illustrate key locations on the peninsula for Species of Concern as well as important habitats in the broader study area. Table 4-12: Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern Common Name Scientific Name COSEWIC Status XXXX Status & Schedule NSESA Status NSDNR Status Atlantic CDC BIRDS Common Loon Gavia immer Not at Risk - - Yellow S4B,S4N Xxxxx Xxxxxx bernicla - - - Yellow S2M Harlequin Duck, eastern population Histrionicus histrionicus Special Concern Special Concern, Schedule 1 Endangered Red S2N Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Not at Risk - - Yellow S3B Piping Plover Charadrius melodus Endangered Endangered, Schedule 1 Endangered Red S1B Peregrine Falcon Falco pergrinus Special Concern Threatened, Schedule 1 Threatened Red S1B Red Knot Calidris canutus rufa Endangered - Endangered Yellow S3M Common Tern Sterna hirundo Not at Risk - - Yellow S3B Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea - - - Yellow S3B Razorbill Alca xxxxx - - - Yellow S1B Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica - - - Yellow S1B Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus Special Concern Special Concern, Schedule 3 - Yellow S1S2B Common Name Scientific Name COSEWIC Status XXXX Status & Schedule NSESA Status NSDNR Status Atlantic CDC Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor Threatened - Threatened Y...
