Survey suggests larger McKay's Bunting population.

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    • Subject Terms:
      BERING Sea; ALASKA
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on a survey done to estimate the population of the rare McKay's Bunting. The fieldwork conducted on the remote Bering Sea outposts of Hall and Saint Matthew Island in Alaska, suggests that its world population is at least five times larger than the previous estimates. Biologists Steven M. Matsuoka and James A. Johnson of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Migratory Bird Management conducted the survey in 2003 and counted 2400 buntings using statistical models.