Observations of marine birds and mammals wintering at polynyas and ice edges

• Main Authors: H. Grant Gilchrist, Gregory J. Robertson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Key words; Belcher Islands; eiders; Somateria; oldsquaw; Clangula hyemalis; ice floe edge; polynyas; Belcher; Canada; Arctic; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*; Delphinapterus leucas; Erignathus barbatus; inuit; King Eider; Nyctea scandiaca; Odobenus rosmarus; Phoca hispida; Somateria mollissima; Ursus maritimus; walrus*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.560.2670; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic53-1-61.pdf

driven expanses of water along landfast ice edges and 2) recurring polynyas located between small islands (most < 10 ha and < 15 m deep). In severe winters, only polynyas persist. In March 1998 and 1999, we recorded the species and numbers of birds and marine mammals present at ten polynyas an...