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Since October, the number of dark-breasted Canada Geese, most of them probably
representing birds from northern Canada and Greenland (Branta canadensis interior) has
increased from about 5% to 30-40% in the Truro area, most of them in Onslow and
Masstown, Colchester County.
Among them today among about 1000 Canadas was a bird with a neck-ring marked GH8. It
is additional proof-positive that at least some of the dark birds come from Greenland.
Since 2008 there has been a goose-banding (mainly neck-ringing) operation in summer in
West Greenland, coordinated from the University of Copenhagen. And in previous years,
Ross Hall and I have seen a few of these ringed birds, or have retrieved information about
them from hunters.
Today's bird was new to me. It was ringed as an adult female in Issungua, West Greenland ,
on the 12th of July 2008. Since then, it has been seen only once, on 19 March 2010 on the
Bassin de Chambly (a widening of the Richelieu River) at Saint-Mathias-sur Richelieu,
Quebec, not far east of Montreal, on its way north in spring. Now it is in Nova Scotia, headed
south, but headed who knows where. The biggest concentration of Greenland Canadas in
eastern North America, judging by neck rings, is in Amherst, MA, but there are observations
from other New England and adjacent states, so it is likely headed that way.
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Bassin de Chambly (a widening of the Richelieu River) at Saint-Mathias-sur Richelieu,
Quebec, not far east of Montreal, on its way north in spring. Now it is in Nova Scotia, headed
south, but headed who knows where. The biggest concentration of Greenland Canadas in
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