Monitoring the impacts of the Gordon C. Leitch oil spill on the breeding bird populations of the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve (QC), Canada / Benoît Roberge et Gilles Chapdelaine.: CW69-5/359E-PDF

"A monitoring program has been undertaken by Parks Canada and the Canadian Wildlife Service to evaluate the impacts of the Gordon C. Leitch oil spill, in Havre-Saint-Pierre in 1999, on the breeding bird populations of the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve (Gulf of St. Lawrence (QC), Canada). The three breeding bird species studied are the Common Eider (Somateria mollissima), the Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle), and the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) . The surveys were completed to provide a means of comparing the status of these bird populations on islands located inside and outside the contaminated area, both before and after the oil spill "--Abstract.

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Department/Agency Canada. Environment Canada.
Canadian Wildlife Service. Quebec Region.
Title Monitoring the impacts of the Gordon C. Leitch oil spill on the breeding bird populations of the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve (QC), Canada / Benoît Roberge et Gilles Chapdelaine.
Series title Technical report series ; no. 359
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Other formats Paper-[English]
Note(s) Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada].
Issued also in French under title: Suivi des impacts du déversement de pétrole du Gordon C.Leitch sur les populations d'oiseaux nicheurs de Ia réserve de parc national de I' Archipel-de-Mingan (Qc.), Canada.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-19).
Issued also in print format.
Includes abstract in French.
Publishing information [Ste-Foy, Québec] : Canadian Wildlife Service, Quebec Region, 2000.
Author / Contributor Roberge, Benoît.
Chapdelaine, Gilles.
Description v, 19 p.
Catalogue number
  • CW69-5/359E-PDF
Subject terms Birds
Oil spills
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