Thick-billed murres and black guillemots in the Barrow Strait area, N.W.T., during spring: diets and food availability along ice edges

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Author: Bradstreet, Michael S. W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1980
• Subjects: Arctic; Barrow Strait; Arctic cod; Boreogadus saida; Cepphus grylle; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z80-292; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z80-292

From 5 June to 4 July 1976, I collected 98 thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia) and 47 black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) at ice edges in Barrow Strait, N.W.T., for diet studies. Alcids were collected at coastal ice edges and at the edges of landfast ice farther offshore; in both habitats food availabil...