private correspondence

• Main Authors: Brent G. Young, Jeff W. Higdon, Steven H. Ferguson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Canada; distribution; High Arctic; Hudson Bay; photographs; Arctic; Hudson; Nunavut; Rankin Inlet; Baffin; Churchill; Killer Whale; Newfoundland; Orca; Orcinus orca; Killer whale
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.680.3181; http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/download/7203/pdf_154/

We identified individual killer whales (Orcinus orca) using recent (200409) photographs to obtain a minimum count of whales that use eastern Canadian Arctic waters. Fifty-three individuals were identified from nine different sightings; 11 individuals from western Hudson Bay sightings and 42 from the...