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Characterisation of Greylag Goose Anser anser breeding areas in the Netherlands with special regard to human land use
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Feige, Nicole Jeugd, Henk Van Der Voslamber, Berend Ståhl, Julia Feige |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | Several hundred years ago the greylag goose was a common breeding bird in the Netherlands. Since the 16th century the number decreased continuously until the beginning of the 20th century. in the first half of the last century, this goose species had disappeared as a regular breeding bird in the Netherlands, and the western natural border of the breeding range was formed by the elbe River. During the 1960s and 1970s, reintroduction of birds and the creation of large nature reserves like, for instance, the Oostvaardersplassen marked the start of a successful recolonisation of the country (van den Bergh 1991). The number of breeding pairs (BP) in the Netherlands was estimated at only 150 in the 1970s (Teixeira 1979). From then on, a spectacular increase started: in 1990 numbers amounted to 1,150-1,200 BP and in 2001 already to 8,000-9,000 BP (Voslamber 2002). in 2005, 100,000 birds with 25,000 breeding pairs were recorded (Voslamber et al. 2007). Today the greylag goose is by far the most frequent goose species breeding in the Netherlands, followed by the Barnacle goose Branta leucopsis (6,000 BP), the Domestic goose Anser anser f. domestica (3,700–5,000 BP) and the grater Canada goose Branta canadensis (3,000 BP). The strong increase of breeding numbers of greylag geese in the Netherlands mirrors the overall population in crease (Voslamber et al. 2007). Characterisation of Greylag Goose Anser anser breeding areas in the Netherlands with special regard to human land use |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
