Waterbird Migration Near the Yukon and Alaskan Coast of the Beaufort Sea: I. Timing, Routes and Numbers in Spring

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Richardson, W. John, Johnson, Stephen R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1981
• Subjects: Aerial surveys; Animal migration; Animal population; Ice leads; Radar; Waterfowl; Alaska; Northern; Canadian Beaufort Sea; Yukon North Slope; Alaskan Beaufort Sea; Arctic; Brant; Canada; Pacific; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; north slope
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65564

Radars, systematic visual observations from the coast, and aerial surveys were used to study migration near the Yukon (1975) and Alaskan (1977-78) coasts of the Beaufort Sea. Conspicuous eastward migration of loons, brant, seaducks, jaegers and glaucous gulls occurs along the icebound coast, and in...