Trends and Fluctuations in Bird Populations on the Tundra at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

• Published in: The Canadian Field-Naturalist
• Main Authors: Lok, C. Martin, Vink, Jaap A. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club 2012
• Subjects: Black Brant; Branta bernicla nigricans; Black-bellied Plover; Pluvialis squatarola; Red-necked Phalarope; Phalaropus lobatus; High Arctic; Low Arctic; Cambridge Bay; Victoria Island; Nunavut; Arctic; Brant; Branta bernicla; Tundra
• Online Access: https://www.canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/1325; https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v126i2.1325

Bird observations from the Cambridge Bay area on Victoria Island, Nunavut, in the summer of 2011 are presented and compared with those from the 1960s and 1980s. A total of 38 species was observed, compared with 42 in 1983 and 47 in 1986. Abundance of species of the High Arctic, such as Black Brant,...