Breeding Birds of Arctic Bay, Baffin Island, N.W.T., with Notes on the Biogeographic Significance of the Avifauna

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Renaud, Wayne E., Johnson, Stephen R., Hollingdale, P. Diane
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1979
• Subjects: Animal behaviour; Animal reproduction; Bird nesting; Birds; Arctic Bay region; Nunavut; Admiralty Inlet; Arctic; Arctic Bay; Baffin Island; Greenland; Arctic bay; Baffin; greenlandic; Red Knot; Ringed Plover; Ruddy Turnstone
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65662

The known avifauna of the Arctic Bay area consists of 38 species, of which 22 are probable or proven breeders and 3 are permanent residents. Arctic Bay appears to be in a transition area between characteristic high arctic and low arctic forms. Eurasian or Greenlandic forms include breeding Ringed Plover and 'Greenland' Hoary Redpoll; and transient Wheatear, Red Knot and Ruddy Turnstone. The absence of several sea-associated species as breeders or even transients may be attributed to the normal late ice break-up in Admiralty Inlet.