Friday, November 19, 2010

Identifying collars for geese - Migration

From John Vradenburg's presentation on snow goose ecology-
Geese we will see at Bosque
Collar colors- origin

Lesser snow goose

RED Warngel Island Russia and la Perouse Bay, Churchill, Manitoba (Hudson Bay)

BLUE Alaska

BLACK Western Canadian Artic (Bank's Island)

YELLOW Central Canadian Arctic (Queen Maude Gulf)

GREEN Eastern Canadian Arctic (Hudson Bay)

Ross's Goose
BLUE (Queen Maude Gulf)

PALE (Quebec Blue- Central Canadian Arctic

YELLOW Eastern Canadian Arctic

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