Summary

Description

Bird surveys conducted at Beaufort Lagoon located along the northern periphery of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from JuneSeptember 1970. The Lagoon area contains habitat and bird and animal life found on no other federally protected land. Migratory birds using the area include black brant, snow goose, common eider, king eider, spectacled eider, whitewinged scoter, surf scoter, common scoter, whistling swan Canada goose, whitefronted goose, pintail, and various other ducks, shorebirds, and waterbirds. The lagoon area consists of 16 avian habitat types modified from Kessel Cade, 1958. The major types include sedgegrass marsh, tussockheath tundra, tundrafreshwater pond or lake edge, river waters, lagoon, and the reef.