Route Selection to Minimize Helicopter Disturbance of Molting Pacific Black Brant: A Simulation

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Miller, Mark W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1994
• Subjects: Aircraft disturbance; Airways; Animal behaviour; Animal population; Brant; Grazing; Helicopters; Mathematical models; Noise; Plumage; Risk assessment; Prudhoe Bay region; Alaska; Arctic; Pacific; Arctique*; Bernache cravant; Branta bernicla; Prudhoe Bay
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64362

I used a previously described simulation model to assess the effects of helicopter activity on approximately 18 000 molting Pacific black brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) near Teshekpuk Lake, Alaska. Bell 206 and Bell 412 helicopters were simulated flying across the molting grounds along six flight...