Cambridge Bay Nunavut trip 2000 - Wed, 13 Sep 2000

Cambridge Bay/ SE Victoria island Nunavut June 27 to July 15 2000

Species seen

12        Red-throated Loon
71        Pacific Loon
26        Yellow-billed Loon
137      Tundra Swan
286      Greater White-fronted Goose
8           Snow Goose
311      Canada Goose
135      Brant (Black Brant)
110      Northern Pintail
109      Common Eider
447      King Eider
553      Oldsquaw
17        Red-breasted Merganser
4          Rough-legged Hawk
2          Peregrine Falcon
1          Gyrfalcon (dark phase)
4          Willow Ptarmigan
5          Rock Ptarmigan
12        Sandhill Crane
49        Black-bellied Plover
158      American Golden Plover
253      Semi-palmated Plover
57        Ruddy Turnstone
2          Red Knot
855      Semi-palmated Sandpiper
1          White-rumped Sandpiper
35        Baird's Sandpiper
62        Pectoral Sandpiper
2          Dunlin
265     Stilt Sandpiper
1          Buff-breasted Sandpiper
176     Red-necked Phalarope
85       Red Phalarope
5          Pomarine Jaeger
44        Parasitic Jaeger
127      Long-tailed Jaeger
26        Thayer's Gull
580      Glaucous Gull
177      Sabine's Gull
1           Ross' Gull (very pink adult)
184      Arctic Tern
228      Horned lark
10        Common Raven
8          American Pipit
2          Savannah Sparrow
1201   Lapland Longspur
117     Snow Bunting
9         Hoary Redpoll
6         Common Redpoll

total 49 species

Very view lemmings around Cambridge Bay this year. So Snowy Owls had left the area in search of lemmings by the time we arrived.

Tyler Hoar
Oshawa
thoar@home.com

James Bay birding trip - Fri, 20 Aug 1999

Sighting reports originating from the ONTBIRDS mail server network are repeated courtesy of the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO).

I've just returned from a birding trip to Loon Island, Nunavut (53'48.97N, 79'10.80W), near the eastern shore of James Bay. List of birds seen:

• 1 immature parasitic(?) jaeger, the same bird flew over the island at least twice a day
• 50+ black guillemot
• 1 greater black-backed gull
• 10+ herring gull
• 50+ arctic tern
• 1 greater white-fronted goose
• 30+ Canada goose
• 20+ white-winged scoter
• 7 black duck
• 50+ whimbrel
• 50+ greater yellowlegs
• 2 solitary sandpiper
• 15 white-rumped sandpiper
• 1 Baird's sandpiper
• 1 stilt sandpiper
• 20+ semipalmated sandpiper
• 50+ semipalmated plover
• 1 horned lark
• 2 American pipit
• 20+ common redpoll
• 5 savanna sparrow (on a little no-name island a few hundred feet to the east)
• 20+ Lincoln's sparrow
• 2 song sparrow

Also seen: a curious seal who came right up to my canoe, and 5 beluga whales.

Access is by float plane from Moosonee or through the Chisasibi Mandow Agency from Quebec.

Happy birding,

Jody Sonmor
Tres St-Redempteur, Quebec
swiftc@total.net

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