Breeding Biology of King Eiders Nesting on Karrak Lake, Northwest Territories

• Main Authors: Dana K. Kellett, Ray T. Alisauskas
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1996
• Subjects: Key words; colonial nesting; habitat selection; king eider; Somateria spectabilis; nesting associations; nest success; Queen Maud Gulf Bird Sanctuary; Arctic; Karrak Lake; Northwest Territories; Queen Maud Gulf; King Eider; Sterna paradisaea
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.575.5831; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic50-1-47.pdf

ABSTRACT. We studied various aspects of the breeding biology of king eiders (Somateria spectabilis) nesting at Karrak Lake, south of Queen Maud Gulf in the central Canadian Arctic. We found 41 nests distributed among 10 islands in Karrak Lake; to our knowledge, this represents the largest number of...