Reid Bay

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Geography

The habitat is characterized by open sea, inlets, coastal marine features, coastal cliffs, rocky marine shores, scree, and boulders. Its coastal elevation rises up to Template:Cvt above sea level.[1]

Fauna

The uninhabited bay area is a Canadian Important Bird Area (NU072),[1] and International Biological Program site (Region 9, Site 7–9). Notable bird species include: black-legged kittiwake, colonial water birds / seabirds, glaucous gull, Iceland gull, northern fulmar, and thick-billed murre.[2]

The former Reid Bay Key Migratory Bird Terrestrial Habitat site has been renamed Akpait National Wildlife Area (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".), coinciding with its location at Akapit Fiord.[3]

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