Long-term monitoring of the cycles and success of breeding activity of Lesser Snow Geese in the Hudson Bay Lowlands

We are monitoring the nesting activity of Lesser Snow Geese. We find nests through systematic searches of fixed plots at 5 sites throughout the goose colony during the incubation period to evaluate the nesting density. All nests found are positioned with a GPS. We determine the clutch size and the f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rockwell, Robert F.
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Polar Data Catalogue 2015
Subjects:
Birds
Breeding colonies
Cape Churchill
La Perouse Bay
Lesser snow geese
Manitoba
Nesting
Reproductive phenology
Reproductive success
Cape Churchill Peninsula and La Pérouse Bay, Manitoba, Canada
environment
Hudson Bay
Canada
Hudson
La Pérouse Bay
Churchill Peninsula
Churchill
Online Access:https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/PDCSearchDOI.jsp?doi_id=730
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Summary:We are monitoring the nesting activity of Lesser Snow Geese. We find nests through systematic searches of fixed plots at 5 sites throughout the goose colony during the incubation period to evaluate the nesting density. All nests found are positioned with a GPS. We determine the clutch size and the float status of 1 egg from each of at least 20 nests at each site in order to determine the dates of nest initiation and projected hatch. We assess reproductive success from juvenile to adult ratios estimated during banding and aerial photographic surveys.

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