ARCTIC Observations of Foraging Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) in the Canadian High Arctic

• Main Authors: Keith A. Hobson, Harold E. Welch
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: Key words; northern fulmar; Fulrnarus glacialis; feeding behaviour; diving; Barrow Strait; Lancaster Sound; Admiralty Inlet; Arctic; Fulmar; Northwest Territories; Resolute Bay; Arctic cod; Boreogadus saida; Fulmarus glacialis; Northern Fulmar; Copepods
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.566.8431; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic45-2-150.pdf

ABSTRACT. We summarize observations of foraging northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) in the Barrow Strait-Lancaster Sound region of the Northwest Territories from June to September 1984-90 and in Admiralty Inlet, N.W.T., in July 1989. In each year, fulmars scavenged hunter-killed marine mammal rema...