Marine birds in the marginal ice zone of the Barents Sea in late winter and spring

• Main Authors: Hunt, GL, Bakken, V, Mehlum, F
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1996
• Subjects: marine birds; northern fulmar; Fulmarus glacialis; black-legged kittiwake; Rissa tridactyla; thick-billed murre; Uria lomvia; dovekie; Alle alle; marginal ice zone; Barents Sea; Ecology; Geology; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Fulmar; Arctic; Black-legged Kittiwake; Dovekie; Northern Fulmar; rissa tridactyla; uria
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qz0n67v

We recorded the distribution and abundance of marine birds in the northern Barents Sea from 27 February to 8 March 1987 and from 20 to 31 May 1988. Birds were more abundant in waters associated with pack ice than in open water away from pack ice. Within the pack ice, thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia...