The Status of the Black-Throated Loon (Gavia arctica) as a North American Bird

Hershey FS. 1917. The Status of the Black-Throated Loon (Gavia arctica) as a North American Bird. The Auk. 34(3):283-290

IN collecting and tabulating data for use in the distributional portion of Mr. A. C. Bent's work on the Life-Histories of North American Birds, the published material on the Black-throated Loon was found to be unsatisfactory,-the records of various observers being frequently indefinite or in many cases not based on actual specimens secured. The earlier writers gave the species a rather wide range in North America, which has been gradually restricted until in the present A. 0. U. Check-List it is stated to breed only in the Kotzebue Sound region of- Alaska, and from Cumberland Sound south to Ungava, while some half dozen scattering localities in the United States are said to have been visited casually in winter.

Type
Journal Article
Authors
Hershey, F
Units
BELA , CAKR , GAAR , KOVA , NOAT
Keywords
Arctic, Arctic Loon, Birds/Ornithology, Distribution, Loons, Status

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