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Article: Habitat features associated with Barrow's Goldeneye breeding in eastern Canada.(Report)
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- The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
- Author:
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Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) has a discontinuous distribution; it occurs mostly in western North America (~180,000 individuals) with smaller populations in eastern North America (~6,000) and Iceland (~2,000) (Eadie et al. 2000, Einarsson et al. 2006, Robert and Savard 2006). Birds from the western North American population during the breeding season are predominantly associated with alkaline lakes in parkland areas, but also with alpine and sub-alpine lakes, American beaver (Castor canadensis) ponds, and small sloughs (Eadie et al. 2000). No landscape-scale study has investigated habitat attributes associated with these breeding sites, but evidence suggests ...
<10 ha), high elevation (>