Results of Tagging Caribou at Little Duck Lake, Manitoba

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Herculite streamers attached to cattle eartags were used to tag 2438 Barren Ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus) at Little Duck Lake, Manitoba, from 1959 to 1965, Eighty-two tags were recovered, 8 tagged caribou were observed, and 3 were recaptured at Duck Lake. Tags were recovered from 2-63 months after application and between 62 and 328 miles from the tagging site. Fifty-six winter tag recoveries were spread over the herd''s entire range while the 26 summer recoveries were exclusively from the Keewatin District of the Northwest Territories. Tag recoveries have shown that the Manitoba-Keewatin caribou herd shares a portion of its winter range with the adjacent Saskatchewan herd but the 2 herds appear to use separate calving grounds and summer ranges. Herd movements have been variable and involve widely separated subgroups. Since a large portion of the herd''s range receives little or no hunting pressure, the herd''s seasonal distribution and specific movement could not be determined from the hunters'' tag recoveries.

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