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The Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia rosea) in Arctic Alaska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

M. Densley
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The Ross's Gull breeds between 62°27' and 70°30'N and 142° to 160°E in wet alder and birch scrub in the deltas of some of the larger north flowing rivers of north-eastern Siberia (Buturlin, 1906; Dementiev and Gladkov, 1951). The species was first discovered on 23 June 1823 by James Clark Ross, then a lieutenant with W. E. Parry's second expedition in search of the North-west Passage. At the time, they were stationed at Igloolik, east Melville Peninsula, in the central Canadian Arctic (Stenhouse, 1930). Ross, once more in company with Parry, saw the species again north of Spitsbergen during their attempt at the pole in July 1827.

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Field Work
Information
Polar Record , Volume 18 , Issue 117 , September 1977 , pp. 603 - 605
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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