Foraging behaviour and site selection of Barnacle Geese Branta leucopsis in a traditional and newly colonized spring staging habitat

• Main Authors: Black, J.M., Deerenberg, Charlotte, Owen, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: GREATER SNOW GEESE; Helgeland; Norway; Outer Island; Svalbard; Branta leucopsis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11370/9af0ac21-8a8b-495a-89c8-85ade0e3242d; https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/foraging-behaviour-and-site-selection-of-barnacle-geese-branta-leucopsis-in-a-traditional-and-newly-colonized-spring-staging-habitat(9af0ac21-8a8b-495a-89c8-85ade0e3242d).html; http://ardea.nou.nu/ardea_show_article.php?nr=347

For three weeks in May the Svalbard Barnacle Geese Branta leucopsis stop to feed on the archipelagos of the Helgeland district, up to 50 km out to sea off western Norway. However, since 1980 an increasing part of the population has moved to a newly exploited agricultural habitat closer to the mainla...