The Kongsfjorden colony of barnacle geese: Nest distribution and the use of breeding islands 1980-1997

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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Four Islands; Juttaholmen; Storholmen; Svalbard; Barnacle goose; Common Eider; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.628.7728; http://www.maartenloonen.nl/literatuur/nps200-057-tombre.pdf

The Kongsfjorden colony of barnacle geese in Svalbard was established in the early 1980s. TIris paper presents a fifteen-year data set of nest distribution and individual use of different nest locations are presented for the geese breeding in this colony. Nest site fidelity, clutch sizes and a relat...