Summer Foods of Lesser Scaup in Subarctic Taiga

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Bartonek, James C., Murdy, H.W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1970
• Subjects: Loess; Grand lac des Esclaves; Great Slave Lake; Yellowknife; Arctic; Grand Lac des Esclaves; Subarctic; subarctique*; taiga; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; Copepods; Esclave*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66203

Reports on the food of 25 adult and 38 juvenile Aythya affinis, collected in June-Sept 1967 along the Yellowknife Highway north of Great Slave Lake. The vegetation, physiography and ponds of the area, the collecting and statistical methods are briefly described. Approx 99% of the scaup diet was anim...