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This is a follow-up on the message I posted a couple of days ago. GLP was still in Onslow yesterday, and likely will stay until that big flock of Canada Geese leaves. ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Fox, Tony" <tfo@dmu.dk> To: "'Eric L. Mills'" <e.mills@dal.ca> Date sent: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:40:08 +0100 Subject: RE: Neck-ringed Canada Goose DearEric Mills Iam not sure how you found us, but needless to say, I am delighted that you did! Thanks so very much for taking the trouble to send the report ofthe Canada Goosebearing theneck collarGLP which you sawby McWilliam Road, Onslow, Colchester County, Nova Scotia on10November 2010. I write to confirm that this was a goose that we banded in Greenland and that we are extremely excited about the news! This was one of the birds banded as part of a project to mark Greenland White-fronted and Canada Geese in west Greenland in summer 2008, and your observations are of great interest! You will see thatthis goose wasseen in Connecticut in the winter following capture, but was not seen in Greenland during summer 2009 and 2010 in the vicinity of its original catch site, where we had teams of researchers in both years. Nor were there any reports from last winter, so no signs at all until your report. GLP wasringedon a lake simply known as LakeY to the catching team (very few lakes in this area have Greenlandic names) which is at 67°06´56"N 50°35´17"N in an area known as Isunngua, immediately north of the airport at Kangerlussuaq in west Greenland. This has been a study area for our investigations on and off over many years. I can tell you that GLP was an adult female when caught, part of a catch of19 birds (all adults, so likely non- breeders and perhaps moult migrants from elsewhere) on19th July 2008.Thanks very muchfor all the details that you supplied- the goose wasonly fitted with a collar and metal leg band, normally we also fit plastic leg bands to measure collar loss rate. I have taken the liberty of attaching two files at the bottom of this mail for your information - one containing the listing with your observation along with others from this year so far and a pdf file containing a short (now very out of date) paper describing our earlier findings (this file need Adobe Reader to open - let me know if you cannot open this). If you would like a little more information about the projectin summer 2008, you can find this at: http://greenland08.wikispaces.com/ with an update from this year via the link on the bottom of the list in the Word document. Needless to say, if you have any other later reports of this bird or any other ringed or collared Canada Geese (especially those beginning with G since these are ours!) please do not hesitate to report them - we would be extremely interested to know whether any otherleg bands orcollars turn up in this area. We do very much appreciate the trouble to which you have gone to find the right source to report these geese and are delighted to have received the information! Do not hesitate to get in touch if you would like further information! All very best wishes and enormous thanks again! Tony Tony Fox Research Professor Department of Wildlife Ecology and Biodiversity National Environmental Research Institute University of Aarhus Kalø Grenåvej 14 DK-8410 Rønde Denmark Phone (direct line) 0045 89201505 Fax 0045 89201515 E-mail tfo@dmu.dk From: Eric L. Mills [mailto:e.mills@dal.ca] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 1:42 AM To: tmu@dmu.dk Subject: Neck-ringed Canada Goose Today, 10 November 2010, I saw a neck-ringed, dark, rather small Canada Goose, similar to Branta canadensis interior, in a very large flock (ca. 4000) of Canada Geese, with a single "Greenland" Greater White-fronted Goose, in fields alongside McWilliam Road, Onslow, Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The band was yellow, and had the letters "GLP". I hope that this sighting will be useful. The bird was with a growing flock of staging Canada Geese in an area that frequently gets northern geese. Not far away at almost the same location is Nova Scotia's first, Canada's second, and North America's third, Greylag Goose, a first winter bird that shows every evidence of being wild. With best regards, Eric Mills ------- End of forwarded message -------
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