Long‐Term Changes in Survival Rates of Lesser Snow Geese

• Published in: Ecology
• Main Authors: Francis, Charles M., Richards, Miriam H., Cooke, Fred, Rockwell, Robert F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1992
• Subjects: Cape Henrietta Maria; Churchill
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1940681; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.2307%2F1940681; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/1940681

Survival rates of adult and juvenile Lesser Snow Geese (Anser caerulescens caerulescens) were estimated based on hunter recoveries from over 80 000 geese banded between 1970 and 1988 at La Perouse Bay, near Churchill, Manitoba. Adult survival rate increased significantly from °78% in 1970 to nearly...