The Origins of moulting Goosanders on the Eden

• Main Authors: P. Leslie Hatton, M. Marquiss
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: designated as a Local Nature Reserve; Site of Special; Furness; Norway; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.586.6846; http://blx1.bto.org/pdf/ringmigration/22_2/hatton.pdf

moulting birds, and their provenance, as determined from subsequent sightings. Goosanders only started to moult on the Eden estuary in the 1980s and their numbers have increased since the late 1980s. This increase also occurred elsewhere on other, geographically similar, Scottish east-coast estuarie...