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Birds and marine mammals in southwestern Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2007

Anthony J. Gaston ,
Stephen A. Smith ,
Robert Saunders ,
G. Ilya Storm  and
Jane A. Whitney
Anthony J. Gaston
Affiliation:
Canadian Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Research Centre, Raven Road, Carleton University, Ottawa K1A 0H3, Canada
Stephen A. Smith
Affiliation:
Canadian Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Research Centre, Raven Road, Carleton University, Ottawa K1A 0H3, Canada
Robert Saunders
Affiliation:
Canadian Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Research Centre, Raven Road, Carleton University, Ottawa K1A 0H3, Canada
G. Ilya Storm
Affiliation:
Canadian Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Research Centre, Raven Road, Carleton University, Ottawa K1A 0H3, Canada
Jane A. Whitney
Affiliation:
Canadian Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Research Centre, Raven Road, Carleton University, Ottawa K1A 0H3, Canada
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Abstract

The southwestern part of Foxe Basin is a little known region of the Canadian Arctic, being difficult to access during the summer because of heavy and unpredictable ice conditions. Surveys of birds and marine mammals in the area were carried out by lightweight expeditions in the summers of 1994 and 1995, using sea-kayaks, as well as a Peterhead boat from the nearest community, at Repulse Bay. The area supports important populations of narwhal, bowhead whales and walrus, as well as significant concentrations of shorebirds, common eiders, black guillemots, and perhaps one third of the world's Thayer's gulls. New information was obtained on the status and abundance of these species and novel observations were made on the feeding ecology and breeding phenology of the gulls.

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Polar Record , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 33 - 47
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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