. The Canadian field-naturalist. 2000 Gaston: Beluga off Northeastern Coates Island 237. Figure L Map of Hudson Bay, showing the location of the camp and features mentioned in the text. poor sea conditions prevented discrimination. Notes were kept of group sizes and composition of adults (white) and immatures (grey), but this information was not always recorded. Results Timing. Earliest sightings were on 15 June (1991, 1997) and latest on 20 August 1993. Belugas were observed on 25% of open water days in June (n= 182), 13% in July (n = 279) and 1% in August (n = 223). The proportion of open-wa
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 2000 Gaston: Beluga off Northeastern Coates Island 237. Figure L Map of Hudson Bay, showing the location of the camp and features mentioned in the text. poor sea conditions prevented discrimination. Notes were kept of group sizes and composition of adults (white) and immatures (grey), but this information was not always recorded. Results Timing. Earliest sightings were on 15 June (1991, 1997) and latest on 20 August 1993. Belugas were observed on 25% of open water days in June (n= 182), 13% in July (n = 279) and 1% in August (n = 223). The proportion of open-water days on which Belugas were seen peaked between 21 June and 4 July (Figure 2), when Belugas were seen on 34% of days (n - 126). They were seen on only 17 days after 10 July (4%, n = 429). Numbers. The highest June total was 1802, in 1998, and the highest July total 500, in 1994 (Appendix 1). The largest number recorded in a sin- gle day was 500, on 26 June 1998. Mean numbers sighted on days when at least one was seen ranged from 1-300, with averages of > 100 recorded for 17- 19 June, 23 and 25 June, 7, 8 and 10 July (Figure 3). Behaviour. Beluga that were travelling were usu- ally in distinct groups of 3-10 animals, spaced 50- 250 m apart, but moving within a relatively narrow corridor that passed 50-500 m from the tip of the camp promontory. Groups of more than five animals usually contained both adults and immatures: soli- tary adults were sometimes seen, but solitary imma- tures were rarely observed. Several records after mid-July involved single females with small calves (< half body length). Foraging animals also tended to be in distinct pods of similar size, but some aggrega- tions of up to 200 formed in the cove to the east of camp, where they frequently milled about and vocal- §^ â a â o o o 2 (0 -S o c o o O Beluga occurrence, Coats I., 1984-98 1111111111111 n. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page image
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