Parasites and Contaminants in Breeding Eider Ducks, Nunavut

• Main Authors: Gilchrist, Grant, Provencher, Jennifer
• Other Authors: Forbes, Mark
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Data Catalogue 2017
• Subjects: Birds; Breeding colonies; Common eider; Contaminants; East Bay; Hudson Strait; Nunavut; Parasites; East Bay Island, Nunavut, Canada - OAEUU; environment; Canada; Hudson; Common Eider
• Online Access: https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/PDCSearchDOI.jsp?doi_id=11810

Each year several thousand pairs of eiders nest on the island and are caught by researchers using mist-nets as they arrive at the colony each spring. In 2013 and 2014 female eiders were caught at the East Bay and given an oral dose of PANACUR (known anti-parasite treatment widely used in animal husb...