Distribution of Murres Outside the Breeding Season: Circumpolar Murre Banding Program

• Main Authors: Petersen, Aevar, Bakken, Vidar
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) 2004
• Subjects: CAFF; Seabirds; CBird; Murre; Anchorage; Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Norway; Nuuk; Yellowknife; Iceland; Uria lomvia; Alaska; uria
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11374/181

CAFF Designated Agencies: Canadian Wildlife Service, Yellowknife, Canada Finnish Ministry of the Environment, Helsinki, Finland Greenland Homerule, Ministry of the Environment, Nuuk, Greenland Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Reykjavik, Iceland Directorate for Nature Management, Trondheim, Norway Russian Federation Ministry of Natural Resources, Moscow, Russia Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Stockholm, Sweden United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska, USA A proposal for a co-operative banding (called ringing in the UK) project between the Arctic countries, which are responsible for the total breeding population of Thick-billed Murres (called Brünnich’s Guillemots in the UK) Uria lomvia.