On Certain Anatids of Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Sutton, George Miksch, Parmelee, David F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1955
• Subjects: Animal distribution; Animal migration; Animal population; Animal tagging; Arctic char; Arctic cod; Biology; Crustacea; Economic feasibility; Electrical properties; Fisheries; Fresh-water ecology; Greenland shark; Hydrography; Lakes; Measurement; Meteorology; Oceanography; Oxygen; Plankton; Seals (Animals); Serials; Temperature; Walruses; Water pH; Ungava; Baie d'; Québec; Hudson Strait; Nunavut/Québec; Frobisher Bay; Nunavut; Cumberland Sound; Hudson Bay; Foxe Channel; Qeqertarsuaq region; Greenland; Arctic regions; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Hudson; Qeqertarsuaq; Baffin; walrus*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66862

Of ten ducks, geese and swans known to breed in southern Baffin, seven were observed by the writers, June 14-Aug. 1953, near the end of Frobisher Bay; Canada geese, snow geese, blue geese, old-squaws, common eiders, king eiders, and red-breasted mergansers are described: numbers seen, the young, physical appearance of adults and young.