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Alaska Gap Analysis Project: Distribution Models for Terrestrial Vertebrate Species of Alaska
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Arctic Loon Breeding Distribution

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Habitat

In Alaska, breeds in small brackish lakes and forages on freshwater lakes adjacent to wet sedge meadows up to 800 m inland (Portenko 1972, Douglas and Sowl 1993).

References

Douglas, H. and K. Sowl. 1993. Northeastern extension of the breeding range of the Arctic Loon in northwestern Alaska. Western Birds 24: 98-100.

Portenko, L. A. 1972. Birds of Chukotski Peninsula and Wrangell Island. Part I: Loons to shorebirds. Nauka Pres, Leningrad.

Project Reports

Final Report Species Atlas

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