SURVIVAL PROBLEMS OF THE WATER-PIPIT IN BAFFIN ISLAND

• Main Authors: George Miksch Sutton, David F. Parmelee
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Cape Dorset; Cumberland Sound; Arctic; Baffin
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.531.845; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic7-2-81.pdf

I N ROUGHER parts of southern Baffin Island the Water-Pipit (Anthus spino- letta) breeds regularly in considerable numbers. In 1877-8 Kumlien ( 1879, p. 74) found it “generally distributed on both sides of Cumberland Sound and the west shores of Davis Straits to lat. 68’N. a t least, but nowhere very abundant. ” Soper (1928, p. 115) reported it as “common everywhere about Cumberland Sound ” (summer of 1924) “very scarce ” in the region of Isoa “during June and most of July ” but “much more common toward the last of July ” ( 1925) and “quite common”-at Cape Dorset from June 1 on in the summer of 1926. Taverner ( 1935, p. 128) called it “common ” in southern