ARCTIC ’.Breeding Birds of Arctic Bay, Baffin Island, ’ ’ N. W.T., with Notes on the Biogeographic Significance of the Avifauna

ABSTRACT. The known avifauna of the Arctic Bay area consists of 38 species, of which 22 are probable or proven breeders and 3 are permanent residents. Arctic Bay appears to be in a transition area between characteristic high arctic and low arctic forms. Eurasian or Greenlandic forms include breeding...

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Main Authors: E. Renaud, Stephen R. Johnson, P. Diane
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Admiralty Inlet
Arctic
Arctic Bay
Baffin Island
Greenland
Arctic bay
Arctique*
Baffin
greenlandic
Groenland
Red Knot
Ringed Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.550.3873
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic32-2-122.pdf
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Summary:ABSTRACT. The known avifauna of the Arctic Bay area consists of 38 species, of which 22 are probable or proven breeders and 3 are permanent residents. Arctic Bay appears to be in a transition area between characteristic high arctic and low arctic forms. Eurasian or Greenlandic forms include breeding Ringed Plover and ‘Greenland’ Hoary Redpoll; and transient Wheatear, Red Knot and Ruddy Turnstone. The absence, of several sea-associated species as breeders or even transients may be attributed to the. * normal late ice break-up in Admiralty Inlet. RRSUMI? La faune d’oiseaux de la baie arctique est riche de 38 sptces dont 22 sont des reproducteurs probables au prouves et 3 sont des residents permanents. La baie arctique parait etre une region de transition entre les formes caracteristiques du “haut et du bas arctique. ” Les formes Eurasiennes ou Groenlandaises incluent les races des pluviers annelks; les t&tes rouges a plumes blanches du groenland; aussi les “culs blancs”, les noeuds rouges et les pluviers rouge&es de passage; on peut attribuer a la fonte tardive normale des glaces dans le baie d l’Amiraut6, I’absence de quelques especes d’oiseaux de mer, tant pour les reproducteurs que pour les passagers.

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