Spring migration of the Taiga Bean Goose Anser f. fabalis along the “Western Flyway” in northern Sweden: numbers in 2003—2008 and timing in comparison with the “Central Flyway” in Finland

• Published in: Ornis Svecica
• Main Authors: Skyllberg, Ulf, Nousiainen, Ismo, Hansson, Per, Bernhardtson, Per, Andersson, Östen, Nordlund, Mattias
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BirdLife Sweden 2009
• Subjects: monitoring; survey; population studies; staging sites; inventering; populationsstudier; rastplatser; Västra; Norra Sverige; Northern Sweden; taiga; Norrbotten
• Online Access: https://journals.lub.lu.se/os/article/view/22645; https://doi.org/10.34080/os.v20.22645

Daily counts and conservative estimates of turn-over showed that at least 3,000 Taiga Bean Geese regularly used the Ume River Delta as the major staging site along the Western Flyway (following the west coast of the Gulf of Bothnia) during spring 2003—2008. Counts across all staging sites yielded 2,...