Winter Movements and Habitat Use by Greater Snow Geese

1997 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. J. Hill ◽  
Robert B. Frederick
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Snow Geese

Interactions between land use, habitat use, and population increase in greater snow geese: what are the consequences for natural wetlands?

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 856-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles Gauthier ◽  
Jean-Francois Giroux ◽  
Austin Reed ◽  
Arnaud Bechet ◽  
Luc Belanger
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Habitat Use ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Snow Geese ◽  
Natural Wetlands

Habitat use and behaviour of Greater Snow Geese during movements from nesting to brood-rearing areas

2006 ◽  
Vol 84 (8) ◽  
pp. 1096-1103 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mainguy ◽  
G. Gauthier ◽  
J.-F. Giroux ◽  
I. Duclos
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Chen Caerulescens ◽  
Brood Rearing ◽  
Snow Geese ◽  
Greater Snow Goose ◽  
Chen Caerulescens Atlantica ◽  
Precocial Birds ◽  
Aerial Tracking

Many precocial birds make long-distance movements with their young after hatch to reach the best foraging sites. On Bylot Island, Nunavut, a large number of Greater Snow Goose ( Chen caerulescens atlantica L., 1758) families move 30 km from the main nesting colony (MNC) to reach the main brood-rearing area (MBR) soon after hatch. Geese moving from the MNC to the MBR generally rear lighter and smaller goslings than geese that avoid this movement by both nesting and rearing their brood at the MBR. In this study, we tested the hypotheses that use of low-quality habitats and an increase in the time spent walking at the expense of foraging during movements could explain the reduced growth of goslings in those families. We conducted visual observations to compare habitat use and selection as well as behaviour of geese during brood movements from the MNC to the MBR (i.e., at a transit area) with those of families that had already settled at the MBR. We also conducted aerial tracking to monitor habitat use of 16 radio-marked females during and after brood movements. Streams, wet polygons, and lakes, considered high-quality habitats in terms of feeding opportunities and predator refuges, were preferred, while upland, a low-quality habitat, was avoided at both the transit area and the MBR. However, broods were found in the upland habitat more often during movements than once settled on a rearing site. The behaviour of unmarked geese at the transit site did not differ from that of geese at the MBR. We suggest that reduced food intake in low-quality habitats during movements, but not the increase in time spent walking, may explain the reduction in growth observed at fledging in goslings moving from the MNC to the MBR.

Spring Habitat Use and Diets of Midcontinent Adult Lesser Snow Geese

1992 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray T. Alisauskas ◽  
C. Davison Ankney
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Snow Geese ◽  
Lesser Snow Geese

Habitat Use by Snow Geese Wintering in Southeast Texas

1984 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 1085 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Hobaugh
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Snow Geese ◽  
Southeast Texas

scholarly journals The effects of disturbance on behaviour, habitat use and energy of spring staging snow geese

2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARNAUD BÉCHET ◽  
JEAN-FRANCOIS GIROUX ◽  
GILLES GAUTHIER
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Snow Geese

Habitat Use and Activity Budgets of Greater Snow Geese in Spring

1988 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles Gauthier ◽  
Yves Bedard ◽  
Jean Bedard
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Activity Budgets ◽  
Snow Geese

Habitat Use by Greater Snow Geese During the Brood-Rearing Period

ARCTIC ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-François Giroux ◽  
Yves Bédard ◽  
Jean Bédard
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Brood Rearing ◽  
Snow Geese

Population organisation in reef sharks: new variations in coastal habitat use by mobile marine predators

2016 ◽  
Vol 544 ◽  
pp. 197-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Chin ◽  
MR Heupel ◽  
CA Simpfendorfer ◽  
AJ Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Coastal Habitat ◽  
Marine Predators ◽  
Reef Sharks

Habitat use of toothed whales in a marine protected area based on point process models

2019 ◽  
Vol 609 ◽  
pp. 239-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
TL Silva ◽  
G Fay ◽  
TA Mooney ◽  
J Robbins ◽  
MT Weinrich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Point Process ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Point Process Models
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