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

• 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

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...