Bird Observations in Severnaya Zemlya, Siberia

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Arctic; Severnaya Zemlya; Alle alle; Alopex lagopus; Arctic Fox; Arctic skua; Arctic tern; Black guillemot; Branta bernicla; Brent goose; Calidris alba; Calidris maritima; Cepphus grylle; Glaucous Gull; ivory gull; King Eider; Larus hyperboreus; little auk; Long-tailed Skua; Nyctea scandiaca; Pagophila eburnea; Plectrophenax nivalis; Purple Sandpiper; Rangifer tarandus; rissa tridactyla; Snow Bunting; snowy owl; Somateria spectabilis; Stercorarius longicaudus; Stercorarius parasiticus; Sterna paradisaea; Tundra; Lapland; Sanderling; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.560.4897; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic48-3-222.pdf

a limited bird fauna with a total of 17 breeding species. The most numerous breeding birds are cliff-nesting seabirds, comprising little auk (Alle alle), 10 000–80 000 pairs; kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), 5000–10 000; black guillemot (Cepphus grylle), 1000– 5000; ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea), 1000...