ARCTIC Breeding Biology of Red-throated Loons in the Canadian Beaufort Sea Region

• Main Author: D. Lynne Dickson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: Arctic; Mer de Beaufort; Toker Point; Tuktoyaktuk; Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula; Yukon; Beaufort Sea
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1032.2767; http://arctic.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/download/1315/1340/

plots were established with a total area of 276 k m 2 and over 200 pairs of loons on territory each breeding season. Loon densities ranged from 0.6 pairs*km-2 on the Yukon coast to 1.8 paiwkm-2 at Toker Point on the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula. An average of 73 % of the pairs on territory nested each year...