Scoter, Melanitta spp., Migrations Interrupted by Confederation Bridge: An Update

Authors

  • Katherine Bunker-Popma 40 Weldon Street, Sackville, New Brunswick E4L 4N4

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v120i2.292

Keywords:

Scoters, Melanitta spp., migrations, Northumberland Strait, bridge, New Brunswick

Abstract

Continued monitoring over 10 years of scoter migrations through Northumberland Strait confirmed that these birds continue to perceive the Confederation Bridge (completed in 1997) as an obstacle. Such problems – and alternatives not causing them – need serious consideration when “strait crossings” are contemplated elsewhere.

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Vol. 120 No. 2 (2006)

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