Distribution of marine birds on Georges Bank and adjacent water. Progress report No. 3, July--September 1978

• Main Author: Powers, K.D.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Manomet Bird Observatory, MA (USA) 1978
• Subjects: Vertebrates 520100* > Environment; Aquatic > Basic Studies > (-1989); Atlantic Ocean; Aquatic Organisms; Diet; Data; Surface Waters; Continental Shelf; Animals; Continental Margin; Habitat; Species Diversity; Canada; Seas; Ecology; Data Compilation; Numerical Data; Birds; Population Dynamics; Information; Data Acquisition; North America; 54 Environmental Sciences; Usa; Hudson; Hudson Strait; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/6804296; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1193664/

From 21 June to 16 September 1978, 8 cruises aboard U.S. and Canada Coast Guard cutters and research vessels from the National Marine Fisheries Service and AtlantNIRO, Kaliningrad, USSR were made in the following areas: U.S. mid- and north-Atlantic continental shelf, western North Atlantic basin, Atlantic Canada, and Hudson Strait and Bay. Excluding those Canadian areas sampled, 18, 136 marine birds of 22 species were counted in 941.99 km/sup 2/ sampled from 1002 fixed-area transects. An equal number of 10-min total bird counts (no fixed area) were conducted at the same time. Data collected from January to June 1978 have been punched. Data from cruises covered in this report have been transcribed, proofed, verified, and submitted to USFWS Migratory Bird and Habitat Research Laboratory. Eighteen of 24 MBO cruises made in 1977 have been transcribed. A cruise conducted 14--28 August was dedicated to the feeding ecology and distribution of marine birds on Georges Bank and contiguous waters. A total of 126 specimens of 9 species was collected. An analysis of the stomach contents of those birds will be made by AtlantNIRO, Kaliningrad, USSR.