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Translocation, survival, and recovery of Kansas‐banded Canada geese
Ecosphere, 2021 Temperate‐breeding, or resident, Canada geese were once extirpated in Kansas, USA, but currently provide abundant viewing and hunting opportunities. Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism (KDWPT) began reintroducing geese in 1980 with a goal ...
J. Boomer Malanchuk +4 more
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Nest-Site Selection and Nesting Ecology of Giant Canada Geese in Central Tennessee
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 Little information is available on giant Canada goose (Branta canadensis maxima) nest-site selection on isolated nesting ponds. We monitored 46 island and 72 shoreline nests in the Upper Cumberland (UC) region of central Tennessee during 2002 and 2003 ...
Jason S. Carbaugh +2 more
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Vision-Based Design and Deployment Criteria for Power Line Bird Diverters
Birds, 2022 The design of bird diverters should be based upon the perception of birds, not the perception of humans, but until now it is human vision that has guided diverter design. Aspects of bird vision pertinent to diverter design are reviewed. These are applied
Graham R. Martin
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The 22nd report of the Rarities Committee of the Slovak Ornithological Society/BirdLife Slovakia
Tichodroma, 2022 In 2021, the Rarities Committee of the Slovak Ornithological Society/BirdLife Slovakia reviewed 56 records, of which 46 were accepted in the category A, one in category C, two in category D and two in category E. Furthermore, four breeding records were
Marian Mojžiš +6 more
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Plant dispersal by Canada geese in Arctic Greenland
Polar Research, 2018 Despite the abundance of migratory geese as herbivores in the Arctic, and ongoing changes in their populations and distributions, little is known about their role in seed dispersal. Climate change requires Arctic plants to adjust their distributions, and
Andy J. Green +4 more
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Site selection by geese in a suburban landscape [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background In European and North American cities geese are among the most common and most visible large herbivores. As such, their presence and behaviour often conflict with the desires of the human residents.
Quentin J. Groom +4 more
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A Second brood in Canada Geese Branta canadensis?
Ornis Svecica, 2014 Canada Geese Branta canadensis do normally not produce more than one clutch per year. On the island of Nidingen off the west coast of Sweden a pair of Canada Geese successfully reared one early brood of young in the spring (2 and 8 young respectively in 2011 and 2012).
Berg, Charlotte, Lerner, Henrik
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Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2012 Disruption associated with nest visits during the hatch period of waterfowl can cause partial abandonment of hatchlings, potentially causing bias in the survival of marked birds.
Katherine B. Guerena +3 more
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Fueling Incubation: Differential Use of Body Stores in Arctic and Temperate-breeding Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) [PDF]
, 2010 We compared the use of body stores in breeding Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) in traditional Arctic colonies in the Barents Sea with that in recently established temperate-zone breeding colonies in the Baltic Sea and North Sea by studying female body ...
Drent, R.H. +3 more
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Drive-by Netting: a Technique for Capturing Grebes and Other Diving Waterfowl
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 We describe a new method (drive-by netting) for capturing grebes (Podiceps spp.) and other birds that dive under water to escape capture. We used a floating gill net to capture 203 eared grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) in 20 days in 1999 on the Great Salt ...
Joe N. Caudell, Michael R. Conover
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