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Projects: Conserving Life in Canada's Oceans

Darnley Bay in Photographs

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    Beluga whales
    NMFS/NMML/CAEP
    Community of Paulatuk
    Technicians deploy a hydrophone in Darnley Bay.
    A bowhead whale surfaces.
    Murre colony
    Dewhurst Donna A, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
    A common eider nests on Egg Island in southwestern Darnley Bay.
    Eggs in a common eider nest.
    A caribou skull among wildflowers on the bay.
    Technicians prepare buoys that will help them locate and retrieve the hydrophone in a few months.
    Technician Manny (John Sam) Green
    Technician Ryan Green
    Darnley Bay
    Summer hunting camp at Egg Island.
    Arctic cotton grass in Paulatuk.
    Beluga whales
    Community of Paulatuk
    Technicians deploy a hydrophone in Darnley Bay.
    A bowhead whale surfaces.
    Murre colony
    A common eider nests on Egg Island in southwestern Darnley Bay.
    Eggs in a common eider nest.
    A caribou skull among wildflowers on the bay.
    Technicians prepare buoys that will help them locate and retrieve the hydrophone in a few months.
    Technician Manny (John Sam) Green
    Technician Ryan Green
    Darnley Bay
    Summer hunting camp at Egg Island.
    Arctic cotton grass in Paulatuk.
    Beluga whales
    NMFS/NMML/CAEP
    Community of Paulatuk
    Technicians deploy a hydrophone in Darnley Bay.
    A bowhead whale surfaces.
    Murre colony
    Dewhurst Donna A, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
    A common eider nests on Egg Island in southwestern Darnley Bay.
    Eggs in a common eider nest.
    A caribou skull among wildflowers on the bay.
    Technicians prepare buoys that will help them locate and retrieve the hydrophone in a few months.
    Technician Manny (John Sam) Green
    Technician Ryan Green
    Darnley Bay
    Summer hunting camp at Egg Island.
    Arctic cotton grass in Paulatuk.
    Beluga whales
    Community of Paulatuk
    Technicians deploy a hydrophone in Darnley Bay.
    A bowhead whale surfaces.
    Murre colony
    A common eider nests on Egg Island in southwestern Darnley Bay.
    Eggs in a common eider nest.
    A caribou skull among wildflowers on the bay.
    Technicians prepare buoys that will help them locate and retrieve the hydrophone in a few months.
    Technician Manny (John Sam) Green
    Technician Ryan Green
    Darnley Bay
    Summer hunting camp at Egg Island.
    Arctic cotton grass in Paulatuk.

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