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Manuscript Report 149
Gunn, A. and D’Hont,
A. 2002. Extent of
Calving for the Bathurst and Ahiak Caribou Herds, June 2002. 42 pp.
ABSTRACT
In
June 2002, we flew an aerial survey to map the extent of calving east and
west of Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut.
The distribution of calves was discontinuous across Bathurst Inlet
which answered the question of whether we could distinguish between
calving in the Ahiak and Bathurst caribou herds. The survey also revealed
that the June 2002 distribution of the 18 cows fitted with satellite
collars overlapped the distribution of cows with calves observed during
the aerial survey 9–14
June 2002. This answers our second reason for doing the survey which was
whether the satellite-collared cows are representative of the herd’s
calving distribution.
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