ARCTIC Birds of the Thule District, Northwest Greenland

ABSTRACT. The avifauna of the Thule district was studied during three breeding season visits in 1983-85. The results are presented here, supplemented by data from four late summer expeditions made in 1983-86 by M. Lea, A. Erskine and W. Higgs. Counting the two redpolls as one, 47 species have been r...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard Vaughan
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1986
Subjects:
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.531.7196
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic41-1-53.pdf
id ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.531.7196
record_format openpolar
spelling ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.531.7196 2023-05-15T14:19:44+02:00 ARCTIC Birds of the Thule District, Northwest Greenland Richard Vaughan The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1986 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.531.7196 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic41-1-53.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.531.7196 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic41-1-53.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic41-1-53.pdf Key words birds ornithology Greenland Thule district text 1986 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T10:38:34Z ABSTRACT. The avifauna of the Thule district was studied during three breeding season visits in 1983-85. The results are presented here, supplemented by data from four late summer expeditions made in 1983-86 by M. Lea, A. Erskine and W. Higgs. Counting the two redpolls as one, 47 species have been recorded from the Thule district, 17 of them seabirds, 10 shorebirds and 7 waterfowl. There are at least 21 species with established breeding populations. Status changes are demonstrated for three species, and three Nearctic species are recorded here for the Thule district for the first time. Text Arctic Arctic birds Arctic Greenland Thule Unknown Arctic Erskine ENVELOPE(-65.667,-65.667,-66.483,-66.483) Greenland
institution Open Polar
collection Unknown
op_collection_id ftciteseerx
language English
topic Key words
birds
ornithology
Greenland
Thule district
spellingShingle Key words
birds
ornithology
Greenland
Thule district
Richard Vaughan
ARCTIC Birds of the Thule District, Northwest Greenland
topic_facet Key words
birds
ornithology
Greenland
Thule district
description ABSTRACT. The avifauna of the Thule district was studied during three breeding season visits in 1983-85. The results are presented here, supplemented by data from four late summer expeditions made in 1983-86 by M. Lea, A. Erskine and W. Higgs. Counting the two redpolls as one, 47 species have been recorded from the Thule district, 17 of them seabirds, 10 shorebirds and 7 waterfowl. There are at least 21 species with established breeding populations. Status changes are demonstrated for three species, and three Nearctic species are recorded here for the Thule district for the first time.
author2 The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
format Text
author Richard Vaughan
author_facet Richard Vaughan
author_sort Richard Vaughan
title ARCTIC Birds of the Thule District, Northwest Greenland
title_short ARCTIC Birds of the Thule District, Northwest Greenland
title_full ARCTIC Birds of the Thule District, Northwest Greenland
title_fullStr ARCTIC Birds of the Thule District, Northwest Greenland
title_full_unstemmed ARCTIC Birds of the Thule District, Northwest Greenland
title_sort arctic birds of the thule district, northwest greenland
publishDate 1986
url http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.531.7196
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic41-1-53.pdf
long_lat ENVELOPE(-65.667,-65.667,-66.483,-66.483)
geographic Arctic
Erskine
Greenland
geographic_facet Arctic
Erskine
Greenland
genre Arctic
Arctic birds
Arctic
Greenland
Thule
genre_facet Arctic
Arctic birds
Arctic
Greenland
Thule
op_source http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic41-1-53.pdf
op_relation http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.531.7196
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic41-1-53.pdf
op_rights Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it.
_version_ 1766291480943525888