Assessing regional populations of ground-nesting marine birds in the Canadian High Arctic

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Mark Maftei, Shanti E. Davis, Mark L. Mallory
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2015
• Subjects: Ground-nesting; seabirds; High Arctic; Nunavut; common eider; Arctic tern; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Arctic; Queens Channel; Common Eider; Polar Research; Somateria mollissima; Sterna paradisaea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v34.25055; https://doaj.org/article/74b1f38bd6684db48817daacbdbf730e

The Queens Channel region of Nunavut is an ecologically distinct area within the Canadian High Arctic consisting of an extensive archipelago of small, low-lying gravel islands throughout which form several localized but highly productive polynyas. We used aerial survey and colony-monitoring data to...