• DOI:10.1676/08-099.1
Corpus ID: 37818289

Demography of a Reintroduced Population of Evermann's Rock Ptarmigan in the Aleutian Islands

@inproceedings{Kaler2010DemographyOA,
  title={Demography of a Reintroduced Population of Evermann's Rock Ptarmigan in the Aleutian Islands},
  author={R. A. Kaler and Steve Ebbert and C. Braun and B. Sandercock},
  year={2010}
}

R. A. Kaler, Steve Ebbert, +1 author B. Sandercock

Published 2010

Biology

Abstract We report results of a 4-year translocation effort to reestablish a breeding population of Evermann's Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta evermanni) in the Near Islands group of the western Aleutian Archipelago. Habitat restoration was completed by eradication of introduced foxes from Agattu Island by 1979. We captured and moved 75 ptarmigan from Attu Island to Agattu Island during 2003–2006, and monitored 29 radio-marked females in the last 2 years of the study. We compared the demography of… CONTINUE READING

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