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Heard,
D.C., F.J. Jackson and T.M. Williams. 1990. Beverly calving ground
survey, 2-14 June, 1987. 23 pp.
ABSTRACT
In
June 1987, a strip transect census in which caribou were counted
visually, was conducted on the calving ground of the Beverly caribou
herd. We
estimated there to be 49,100 + 2,810 (SE) caribou one year old
and older on the calving grounds, 32,500 of which were parturient
(pregnant and postpartum) females.
That estimate was considerably lower than the corresponding
estimate of 45,800 parturient females obtained in 1984.
The weather during the calving period was never suitable to carry
out an aerial photographic survey, thus an independent estimate of herd
size is not available.
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