Overview of migrant waterfowl use of the Great Lakes areas of concern and other selected coastal sectors in southern Ontario / A. Mullie, R.K. Ross, D.G. Dennis.: CW69-5/261E-PDF

"The shoreline of the southern Great Lakes is extremely important to migrant waterfowl; as well, it is among the areas most heavily impacted by human activities in North America. The International Joint Commission which is charged with improving the environmental quality of the Great Lakes, has designated for specific remedial actions 43 Areas of Concern (AOC's) where the aquatic environment bas been most severely degraded. Seven of these are found along the Canadian shore of the southern Great Lakes. Aerial surveys of migrant waterfowl use of much of this shore have been routinely undertaken since 1968 by the Canadian WildIife Service, and subsets of these data are summarized for each AOC"--Abstract.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canada. Environment Canada.
Canadian Wildlife Service. Ontario Region.
Title Overview of migrant waterfowl use of the Great Lakes areas of concern and other selected coastal sectors in southern Ontario / A. Mullie, R.K. Ross, D.G. Dennis.
Variant title Migrant waterfowl use of Great Lakes areas of concern
Series title Technical report series ; no. 261
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Other formats Paper-[English]
Note(s) Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-143).
Issued also in print format.
Includes abstract in French.
Publishing information Nepean, Ont. : Canadian Wildlife Service, Ontario Region, 1996.
Author / Contributor Mullie, A.
Ross, Richard Kenyon.
Dennis, D. G.
Description xii, 144 p. : maps, charts.
Catalogue number
  • CW69-5/261E-PDF
Subject terms Aquatic Birds
Migration
Habitats
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