field cameras
Pacific Wild installs pan-tilt-zoom and underwater cameras at key points in the rainforest and marine environment and streams the footage into the Bella Bella Community School as a part of the SEAS Community Initiative. The terrestrial pan-tilt-zoom cameras can be controlled from any computer on the school's network, meaning that students can actively monitor the cameras' surroundings and record exciting wildlife events.We move the cameras throughout the year to capture different natural history events. This past fall, we positioned an underwater camera in a spawning stream near Bella Bella, as well as a terrestrial pan-tilt-zoom remote camera above the stream to observe predation. Throughout the winter we placed an underwater camera to capture footage of intertidal life such as sea stars and urchins, fish, and the occasional harbour seal. In the springtime we document the herring spawn and the numerous creatures who feed on these fish and their eggs after a long winter, such as the black bear shown above.
Stay tuned for more video clips from our cameras! Here is a sampling of archived footage:
Harbour Seal Underwater
A harbour seal zooms by our underwater camera in the Great Bear Rainforest. Winter 2012.
Wolf Catches Pink Salmon
Fall 2011. Taken with Pacific Wild's remote pan-tilt-zoom camera system.
Black Bear with Pink Salmon
Footage of a black bear fishing at dawn. Fall 2011. Taken with a remote wireless pan-tilt zoom camera by Pacific Wild.
Pink Salmon September 7, 2011
The pink salmon have returned to spawn in a river near Bella Bella, BC.
Herring Spawn April 2011
Underwater footage of herring spawning on hemlock branches on the central coast of British Columbia.
Grizzly Bear Rub Tree
Grizzly bear uses a scent mark tree in the Great Bear Rainforest
Wolf pack fishing in October, 2010
Watch wolves catching spawning salmon in the Great Bear Rainforest in this video, which was filmed with a remote camera streaming wirelessly into a local school where students can watch it live. The remainder of the pack was fishing just around the corner.
Spawning salmon
Oct. 1st, 2010: This video was filmed with a remote underwater camera on the central coast of B.C., and recorded live via wireless stream at a local community school.
Great Blue Heron gulps down whole pink salmon
A Great Blue Heron swallows whole a spawning pink salmon in the Great Bear Rainforest.
Crane chick emerges, May 31 2010
Less than one day old, a wild sandhill crane chick nestles in its mother's feathers and takes food from both its parents. This video was taken with a remote wireless camera in the Great Bear Rainforest by Pacific Wild.
Nesting sandhill cranes May 27, 2010
A nest exchange between a pair of cranes. This clip shows them stretching, drinking, preening, and turning the 2 eggs. This video was taken with a remote wireless camera in the Great Bear Rainforest by Pacific Wild.
Wolf Highlights; The fall field season 2008
Some of our best field video from the 2008 pilot field camera trial