A 16-year Record of Summer Birds on Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Pattie, Donald L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1990
• Subjects: arctic birds; numbers; census; populations; breeding range; oiseaux arctiques; nombres; recensement; aire de reproduction; Arctic; Canada; Devon Island; Northwest Territories; Pacific; Arctic birds; Arctique*; Calidris canutus; Calidris maritima; Plectrophenax nivalis; Purple Sandpiper; Snow Bunting; Sterna paradisaea; Lapland
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64676

An annual census of adult birds was conducted on the 43 sq km Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, in the summers of 1970-73 and 1978-89. Forty-three species were seen during 16 years. Of these, 18 species bred regularly on or immediately adjacent to the lowland and 10 were occasional bre...