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- Title
Breeding and Non-Breeding Range of Canada, Branta canadensis, and Cackling Geese, Branta hutchinsii, in the Eastern Canadian Arctic.
- Authors
Mallory, Mark L.; Fontaine, Alain J.; Boyn, Hugh
- Abstract
The accepted breeding distribution of Canada Geese from the Atlantic Population (Branta canadensis interior) in the eastern Canadian Arctic is currently confined to northern Québec and the south coast of Baffin Island. Here we provide evidence based on observations from scientific studies, Inuit hunters, and territorial Wildlife Officers that B. c. interior now breeds in growing numbers 500 km farther north on northeastern Baffin Island than previously reported. Cackling Geese (B. hutchinsii), which breed more widely across eastern Arctic Canada, to about 72°N, may also be increasing there. Moreover, individuals of both species are seen occasionally as far north as Ellesmere Island in small flocks and within migrating or moulting flocks of Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) or Brant (B. bernicla hrota), though none of these far northern stragglers are known to have bred. Whether these observations reflect a recent range expansion or improved distributional knowledge from more intensive recent survey efforts remains unknown.
- Subjects
BAFFIN Island (Nunavut); NUNAVUT; CANADA goose; CACKLING goose; BREEDING; ZOOGEOGRAPHY; ANIMAL populations; WATERFOWL; BIRD behavior; ANIMAL migration
- Publication
Canadian Field-Naturalist, 2005, Vol 119, Issue 4, p483
- ISSN
0008-3550
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22621/cfn.v119i4.177