The Greenland white‐fronted goose Anser albifrons flavirostris in Ireland and Britain 1982/83–1994/95: Population change under conservation legislation

• Published in: Wildlife Biology
• Main Authors: Fox, Anthony D., Norriss, David W., Stroud, David A., Wilson, H. John, Merne, Oscar J.
• Other Authors: World Wildlife Fund
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1998
• Subjects: Greenland; Islay
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2981/wlb.1998.010; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.2981/wlb.1998.010; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2981/wlb.1998.010

After protection from hunting on the wintering range in 1982/83, complete surveys of Greenland white‐fronted geese at all known Irish and British wintering resorts have been carried out annually. These showed that this population increased by 5.0% per annum from 16,541 in spring 1983 to 30,459 in sp...