Recent Trends in First-Year Survival for Black Brant Breeding in Southwestern Alaska

• Published in: The Condor
• Main Authors: James S. Sedinger, Christopher A. Nicolai
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Ornithological Society 2011
• Subjects: Brant; Yukon; Branta bernicla; Kuskokwim; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2011.100218

We estimated first-year and adult survival of Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) from the Yukon—Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, to assess (1) the role that first-year survival plays in declining recruitment and in the local breeding population's decline since the early 1980s and (2) the potential...