Summer and Autumn Movements and Habitat Use by Belugas in the Canadian High Arctic and Adjacent Areas

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Richard, P.R., Heide-Jørgensen, M.P., Orr, J.R., Dietz, R., Smith, T.G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2001
• Subjects: beluga; Delphinapterus leucas; dive recording; High Arctic; North Water; satellite-linked tracking; swimming speed; béluga; Extrême-Arctique; suivis télémétriques par satellite; plongée; vitesse de nage; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Baie de Baffin; Croker; Croker Bay; Devon Island; Fosse; Greenland; Jones Sound; Le Fond; Maxwell Bay; Melville Peninsula; Peel Sound; Prince of Wales Island; Somerset Island; Arctique*; Baffin; Beluga; Beluga*; Béluga*; Groenland
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63839

Twenty-one adult belugas (8M, 13F) were live-captured and instrumented with satellite-linked transmitters in the summer and fall of 1996. Twelve were captured in estuaries along the coast of Somerset Island in July and nine were captured in September in Croker Bay, SE Devon Island. This paper report...