Status of High Arctic Black-Legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) Colonies in Barrow Strait, Nunavut, Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Mallory, Mark L., Akearok, Jason A., Gaston, Anthony J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2009
• Subjects: black-legged kittiwake; Rissa tridactyla; Arctic; population trend; mouette tridactyle; Arctique; tendance caractérisant la population; Barrow Strait; Canada; Greenland; Lancaster Sound; Nunavut; Arctic Population; Arctique*; Black-legged Kittiwake; Groenland; Mouette tridactyle; rissa tridactyla; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63180

We used aerial survey estimates, photographic censuses, and plot counts to examine trends in the size of five black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) colonies around Barrow Strait, eastern Nunavut, Canada, between 1972 and 2007. During these three decades, one small colony disappeared, two medium-...