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Thick-billed Murres, Dovekies,
Fulmars, Thayer's Gulls
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Thick-billed Murres below the 915 metre
high nesting cliffs as adult males wait for young to jump off the
cliff ledges. Akpait National Wildlife Area on Baffin Island on 3
September 2015. We saw thousands here and at Prince Leopold Island
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VIDEO - Please see video of Thick-billed Murres loudly vocalizing.
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Dovekies are the most numerous alcid in
Baffin Bay and the western North Atlantic. Millions breed in
northwest Greenland. A small number breed in the only known Canadian
colony at Home Bay on east Baffin Island. We saw hundreds every day
in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. |
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Dovekie and sea ice in Davis Strait on 2
September 2015 |
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Grey morph Northern Fulmar in Davis
Strait on 2 September 2015. Grey morphs comprised a higher percentage of
the fulmar population in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, with the
darkest birds breeding in Labrador. |
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Whereas at Pond Inlet,
the majority were light morph like the above individual. 30 August
2015. |
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Adult Thayer's Gull at
Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic on 24 August
2015. |
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Adult Thayer's Gulls on nest cliffs at
Dundas Harbour, Devon Island on 29 August 2015. |
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Pale-winged adult
Kumlien's Gull with minimal grey on primaries at the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island on 3 September
2015. |
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End of page 3.
Please go to page 4 - Marine Mammals |
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