Not exactly duck related: Adamie gets a hair cut

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Scott Gilliland

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Just returned from my third summer inventorying colonies of eider ducks on the south coast of Baffin Island in Arctic Canada. This summer we set up camp about 150 km east of Kinngait (old name Cape Dorset). Our camp was comprised of 4 wall tents surrounded by a bear fence. Although we are all there to work on eider ducks, the most memorable moments in the field are not the ducks but the people.

We are working a crew comprised of three generations of Inuit. Despite the incredible hardships these people have endured over the generations they are the funniest people you will ever meet. They are always joking and laughing and it's contagious. While in camp, they decided to give Adamie a haircut. The started with a knife, but eventually grabbed the bannock bowl and a pair of scissors from the kitchen tent. Simeonie (Sim) is on the camera and his laughter ... well you can watch the rest.


 
SJ Fairbank said:
Nothing like the old bowl cut. (y)

Any thoughts on the eider population?
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Lots of thoughts. In the Eastern Arctic it is the northern subspecies of the common eider. Birds migrate to southwestern Greenland, and Newfoundland and parts of Quebec in Canada to winter. There have been 2 recent projects that have revisited older data sets and we see very different results. On the western side of Ungava Bay initial results suggest they are doing well, however the story on the area along the southern Baffin coast is not so good. We are just back and have not run any analyses, this is just first impressions.
 
Scott Gilliland said:
Lots of thoughts. In the Eastern Arctic it is the northern subspecies of the common eider. Birds migrate to southwestern Greenland, and Newfoundland and parts of Quebec in Canada to winter. There have been 2 recent projects that have revisited older data sets and we see very different results. On the western side of Ungava Bay initial results suggest they are doing well, however the story on the area along the southern Baffin coast is not so good. We are just back and have not run any analyses, this is just first impressions.
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I was hoping for a little good news, sad to hear there may be a decline. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
 
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