Razorbills (Alca Torda) Follow Subarctic Prey into the Canadian Arctic: Colonization Results from Climate Change?

• Published in: The Auk
• Main Authors: Anthony J. Gaston, Kerry Woo
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Ornithological Society 2008
• Subjects: Arctic; Coats Island; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Newfoundland; Alca torda; Climate change; Razorbill; Sea ice; Subarctic; thick-billed murre; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1525/auk.2008.07195

We describe the occurrence and behavior of Razorbills (Alca torda) visiting Coats Island, Northern Hudson Bay, an area where sea-ice cover in summer has been much reduced since the mid-1990s. Coats Island is 300 km from the previous most-westerly breeding site for the species and nearly 2,000 km fro...