Winter fidelity and apparent survival of lesser snow goose populations in the Pacific flyway

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 159-167

  Williams, Christopher K ^a   Samuel, Michael D ^b   Baranyuk, Vasily V ^c   Cooch, Evan G ^d   Kraege, Don ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c Russian Ministry of Environment   (Russian Federation)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

Author keywords

Banks Island; Chen caerulescens; Mark recapture; Migration; Pacific Flyway; Recruitment; Snow goose; Survival; Wrangel Island

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVAL; SYMPATRY; WATERFOWL; WINTER;

BANKS ISLAND; CANADA; EURASIA; MAGADAN [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WRANGEL ISLAND;

ANSER; AVES; CHEN; CHEN CAERULESCENS; CHEN CAERULESCENS CAERULESCENS;

EID: 38649143692     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2005-748     Document Type: Article

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