Author: Anne Fox
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Video: RSPB making Loch Lomond better for GWGs
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Greenland White-fronted geese are rare winter visitors the UK. One of the places they come back to year after year is RSPB Scotland’s Loch Lomond nature reserve. The reserve team work hard to make it a place where the geese can feed and rest up, ready to head North for the breeding season. Join Warden…
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2022/23 Wintering Report
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in CountingEvery year the wintering sites of the Greenland White-fronted Goose in Britain and Ireland are counted and breeding success noted. This work is done mainly by volunteers and the results inform the understanding of what is happening to this vulnerable sub-species. The report for the latest complete winter season is now available on the site…
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Seen a collared bird?
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in CountingIf you have seen a collared Greenland Whitefronted Goose, most likely at one their wintering grounds in the UK and Ireland then please let us know date and location as well as the collar ID of course. You can use the comment form at the end of this post.
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In search of Loch Lomond’s White-fronts
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in Countingby Ian Francis & Nicky Penford We’re fortunate in that most Greenland White-front wintering sites have dedicated people living locally who count the birds during the winter as part of our UK and Ireland count network. They do a great job in checking the geese and recording vital parameters. But supplementary information is always useful,…
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Goose time sundial
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Loch Lomond is an important wintering site for Greenland White-fronted Geese, with recent counts peaking at just under 200 birds. The geese use farmland to the south of Loch Lomond as well as the RSPB reserve by the loch. The local RSPB team and many volunteers count the geese each winter, providing data for the…
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About the Greenland White-fronted Goose
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in GeneralThe Greenland White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons flavirostris Latest field trip: Greenland 2010 Latest update: Archive video of the first 1979 expedition added, Spring 2010 report, small sites report The Greenland White-fronted Goose, Anser albifrons flavirostris, breeds in west Greenland, and migrates via Iceland to winter in Ireland and Britain. It is the most distinctive race…
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The Greenland White-fronted Goose Study census network
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in GeneralThe first description of the numbers and distribution of wintering flocks of Greenland White-fronted Geese in Ireland and Britain was compiled by Major Robin Ruttledge and Malcolm Ogilvie and published in the 1979 volume of Irish Birds. For most Irish flocks, often wintering in remote bogland habitats, there were no regular counts to give a…
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Broubster Leans SSSI becomes RSPBs latest reserve acquisition
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in GeneralBroubster Leans SSSI has just become the lastet reserve to be acquired by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, adding another layer of site sfaeguard to this important wetland and the most regularly used roost site for the Westfield flock of Caithness wintering Greenland White-fronted Geese. The press release reads:
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Greenland white-fronts – alive and well in Africa
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in MeetingsThere are those occasional days that make up for all the rest. Today was one of the former.I’d been invited to the launch of World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) in northern Kenya – immediately prior to the international avian influenza symposium I’m attending in Nairobi. All I knew was that we would be taken there…
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An Icelandic evening
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in GeneralHigh on a lonely hill in the late afternoon and deep calls drift from a distant flight of swans as they flap their way slowly across the vastness that is the mire at Ferjubakki. Thin grasses bend in the chill breeze that blows from the far-off snowy mountains. There’s little sign of man’s presence here…