Breeding Atlantic Puffins, Fratercula arctica, and other birds species of Coburg Island, Nunavut

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 72-77

  Robards, Martin ^a   Gilchrist, H Grant ^b   Allard, Karel ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atlantic Puffin; Breeding range; Canada; Coburg Island; Fratercula arctica; Northwater Polynya; Nunavut

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BREEDING BEHAVIOR; CANADA; NESTING; POPULATION DENSITY; SEABIRD;

BREEDING POPULATION; COLONY; SEABIRD;

CANADA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FRATERCULA ARCTICA; FULMARUS GLACIALIS; LARIDAE; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; URIA LOMVIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034054510     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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