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RESPONDENT
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Victoria Johnston
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SITE NAME
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Walker Bay, Kent Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada
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| Contact details
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| 867-669-4767/867-873-6776(f) // Vicky.Johnston@EC.GC.CA // Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, #301, 5204-50th Avenue, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, X1A 1E2, Canada
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PROJECT DETAILS |
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Project name:
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Testing methods for the Arctic Shorebird Monitoring Program (Canada and US)
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Start of survey:
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End
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Team
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20.06
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28.06
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4
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| Season was a few days late judging from conditions in Cambridge Bay. No major snowfalls occurred from 20 to 28 June, though snow/sleet/rain squalls occurred almost daily, and this period was also more windy than usual.
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| Date of ice-break on
rivers: |
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| Date of final loss of
snow: |
23 June
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
low
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Breeding conditions:
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| Arctic Foxes, Snowy Owls, Long-tailed, Arctic and Pomarine Skuas and Rough-legged Buzzards were rare, but Artcic Foxes bred.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| We observed lots of evidence of winter lemming activity, but very few live lemmings were seen.
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
of fauna studies: |
| We were conducting tests of the Arctic Shorebird Monitoring Program. Plot densities of shorebirds and passerines were calculated but sample size was too small to estimate densities for the whole study area. We continue the study in 2002 and will publish densities and estimated population for Kent Peninsula in the fall of 2002.
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