Previously Unrecorded Colonies of Ross' and Lesser Snow Geese in the Queen Maud Gulf Bird Sanctuary

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Alisauskas, Ray T., Boyd, Hugh
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1994
• Subjects: Aerial surveys; Animal behaviour; Animal distribution; Animal population; Bird nesting; Geese; Islands; Lakes; Lesser Snow Geese; Ross' Geese; Wildlife habitat; Queen Maud Gulf Migratory Bird Sanctuary; Nunavut; Arctic; Blanche; Canada; Queen Maud Gulf; Queen Maud Gulf Bird Sanctuary; Refuge d'oiseaux du Golfe Reine-Maud; Reine; Arctique Central; Arctique*; Central Arctic
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64328

In late June 1990 and 1991, during helicopter surveys of geese on the lowlands south of Queen Maud Gulf in the central Canadian Arctic, we found 26 colonies of nesting Ross' (Chen rossii) and Lesser Snow Geese (Chen c. caerulescens). In the 1960s, colonies were found exclusively on islands in s...