The Autumn Migration of Thick-billed Murres near Southern Baffin Island and Northern Labrador

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Orr, Craig D., Ward, Richard M.P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1982
• Subjects: Animal migration; Thick-billed Murres; Winter ecology; Baffin Bay-Davis Strait; Hudson Strait; Nunavut/Québec; Labrador Sea; Newfoundland; Nunavut; Baffin Bay; Baffin Island; Canada; Greenland; Hudson; Mer du Labrador; Île de Baffin; Arctic; Baffin; Davis Strait; thick-billed murre; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65413

Aerial surveys were used to assess the timing and route of the swimming migration of Thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia) near southern Baffin Island and northern Labrador in the autumn of 1977, 1978 and 1979. Several hundred thousand adults and chicks from six southern Baffin area colonies departed ea...