. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1986 Abraham and Ankney: Birds of Southampton Island 181 Foxe Channel GORE POINT. Figure 1. East Bay area, showing its position on Southampton Island (inset). East Bay Migratory Bird Sanctuary boundaries (polygon), primary study area (rectangle), locations briefly visited (triangles) and m elevation contour (dotted line). Annotated List Tundra Swan. No nests were found, but one pair with three downy, flightless cygnets was seen on 18 July 1979. Adults were seen regularly in June and early July 1980 and some aerial displays were noted. Signs of nest buildin
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1986 Abraham and Ankney: Birds of Southampton Island 181 Foxe Channel GORE POINT. Figure 1. East Bay area, showing its position on Southampton Island (inset). East Bay Migratory Bird Sanctuary boundaries (polygon), primary study area (rectangle), locations briefly visited (triangles) and m elevation contour (dotted line). Annotated List Tundra Swan. No nests were found, but one pair with three downy, flightless cygnets was seen on 18 July 1979. Adults were seen regularly in June and early July 1980 and some aerial displays were noted. Signs of nest building were discovered on 4 July 1980. There were definitely fewer swans at EB than the Bay of God's Mercy. Snow Goose. The eastern limit of the EB Lesser Snow Goose colony (Kerbes 1975) lies within the western portion of our study area. Nest density increased westward toward the head of EB. Most birds nested on the exposed beach ridges above the first terrace ( above 5 m above the high tide level). After hatching and during the flightless period, they were less common in the study area, dispersing inland towards Native Bay and eastward along the south shore as far as Gore Point (Figure 1). Nesting occurred in both years, but conditions were more favourable in 1979. Hatching was earlier in 1979 (6 to 12 July) than in 1980 (10 to 18 July). Total nesting attempts in the study area in 1979 and 1980, determined by systematic searches during the final 10 days of incubation, were 605 and 71 respectively, an 88% difference. Qualitative aerial observations during supply flights and banding in 1980 revealed very large numbers of Snow Geese in the lowlands between EB and Native Bay, suggesting that in the poorer season when only about 20% of potential breeders nested, the birds still remained to moult within the historical post-hatch feeding areas. Blue-phase geese comprised 38% of two samples of nesting birds (38% in 1979, N = 250; in 1980, N = 358). Among flightless (banded) adult
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