Trout Lake, Mills Lake (banded) cannot be verified; Yellowknife (BEM); Fort Providence, May 1885 (unconfirmed, 1996 Checklist); On NWT/NU Checklist - any NWT records? Possibly NU only, Included by Sirois and McRae (1996) as a breeder on the Arctic Islands. There are no known records from the current boundaries of the Northwest Territories, and so this is presumed to refer to occurrences in Nunavut, (NWT Bird Checklist project) Ref: Sirois, J. and D. McRae. 1996. A Miniguide to a Megaterritory and a Checklist: The Birds of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Second Edition. Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service