Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea) Distribution in Late Summer and Autumn in Eastern Lancaster Sound and Western Baffin Bay

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Renaud, Wayne E., McLaren, Peter L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1982
• Subjects: Aerial surveys; Animal distribution; Animal migration; Animal population; Gulls; Winter ecology; Baffin Bay-Davis Strait; Lancaster Sound; Nunavut; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Baffin Island; Grise Fiord; Pond Inlet; Baffin; Davis Strait; ivory gull; Pagophila eburnea
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65366

Ivory gulls in western Baffin Bay and eastern Lancaster Sound were studied in 1976, 1978 and 1979 using aerial surveys. During September and October concentrations of hundreds of ivory gulls occurred along glacier fronts on southeast Ellesmere and northeast and southeast Devon islands, and where off...