Numbers and distribution of wild geese in The Netherlands, 1979-1984

Article Sidebar

PDF

Main Article Content

Barwolt Ebbinge
Leo van den Bergh
Anton van Haperen
Martin Lok
Jules Philippona
Jan Rooth
Arend Timmerman

Abstract

This paper deals with the numbers of wild geese in The Netherlands during the period 1979-84. This period comprises four mild winters and one cold winter, 1981-2. The cold resulted in a higher number of both Bean Goose Anser fabalis subspecies, a lower number of Dark-bellied Brent Geese Branta b. bernicla and an influx of small but unusual numbers of Light-bellied Brent Geese B. b. hrota. Moreover all other wintering species of geese tended to shift to the snow-free southwestern, and mildest, part of the country during the cold spell. When compared with the previous five-year period the four Anser species (Greylag A. anser, Whitefront A. albifrons, Bean and Pinkfoot A. brachyrhynchus) have further increased by 50-80%, whereas the two Branta species showed an increase of 13% in the Barnacle Goose B. leucopsis and 39% in the Brent.

Article Details

How to Cite
Ebbinge, B., van den Bergh, L., van Haperen, A., Lok, M., Philippona, J., Rooth, J., & Timmerman, A. (1986). Numbers and distribution of wild geese in The Netherlands, 1979-1984. Wildfowl, 28–34. Retrieved from https://tidsskrift.dk/Wildfowl/article/view/154784
Issue
Wildfowl 37
Section
Artikler

Articles in Wildfowl volumes 1-74 and in Wildfowl Special Issues 1-7  are not licensed under Creative Commons. In these volumes, all rights are reserved to the authors of the articles respectively.

The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (which published the journal from 1948–2020 inclusive) retains a royalty-free license in perpetuity to access and use pre-2021 issues for the purposes of research, which may involve sharing with research partners from time to time.

The copyright for this paper belongs to the Author(s). Papers published in Wildfowl 75 (in 2025) and subsequent issues are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

In the articles published in these volumes, all rights are reserved to the authors of the articles respectively. This implies that readers can download, read, and link to the articles, but they cannot republish the articles. Authors can upload their articles into an institutional repository.