A pelagic seabird survey of arctic and sub-arctic canadian waters during fall

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-84

  McKinnon, Laura ^a   Grant Gilchrist, H ^b   Fifield, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baffin Island; Hudson Bay; Hudson Strait; Labrador; Marine birds; Northwest Passage; PIROP; Shipboard surveys

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SEABIRD;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; HUDSON BAY; HUDSON STRAIT; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

ALLE; ALLE ALLE; AVES; FULMARUS GLACIALIS; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 70349855058     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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