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Southwest Bylot Plain

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The plain's habitat is characterized as a rolling outwash with barrens, rocky flats, and tundra. Its elevation reaches a height of 500 m (1,600 ft)
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Dominant vegetation includes low shrub-herb, and shrub-sedge tundra, along with heath and willow in the river valleys.
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is the closest community. Southwest Bylot is notable for housing the largest known breeding colony of the
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In addition to the greater snow goose, notable bird species include:
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plain
Qikiqtaaluk
Nunavut
Canada
Bylot Island
Eclipse Sound
Pond Inlet
greater snow goose
above sea level
black-legged kittiwake
ivory gull
peregrine falcon
Ross's gull
thick-billed murre
colonial
waterbirds
waterfowl
Important Bird Area
Bylot Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary
Cape Graham Moore
Cape Hay
International Biological Program
"Southwest Bylot"
the original
72°55′N 79°30′W / 72.92°N 79.5°W / 72.92; -79.5 (Southwest Bylot)
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Qikiqtaaluk Region
Nunavut
stub
expanding it

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