On Certain Anatids of Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island

Authors

  • George Miksch Sutton
  • David F. Parmelee

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic3813

Keywords:

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

Abstract

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.

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Published

1955-01-01

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 3 (1955): 137–200

Section

Articles