The Greenland White-fronted Goose Study

Tracking the status of the Greenland White-fronted Goose

Blog for http://www.greenlandwhitefront.org Sightings, legal protection and other aspects of the Greenland White-fronted Goose, anser albifrons flavirostris, which summers in Greenland, stages in Iceland and winters in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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The Greenland White-fronted Goose Study

Have you seen any Greenland White-fronted Geese lately? Do you have any photographs? Interested to know the latest legal protection measures put into place to safeguard this sub-species? You can follow the latest information here. Tell us about what is happening in your area by clicking 'Create a new blog post' further down on this page.

Alternatively you can click on the 'My Page' tab above and then click on 'Add Blog post' which appears at the top right hand corner.


For more background information go to http://www.greenlandwhitefront.org



There is also a Flickr group for GWGS at http://www.flickr.com/groups/61565319@N00/ where we could collate interesting GWGS photos.

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Tony Fox

Broubster Leans SSSI becomes RSPBs latest reserve acquisition

Broubster Leans SSSI has just become the lastet reserve to be acquired by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, adding another layer of site sfaeguard to this important wetland and the most regularly used roost site for the Westfield flock of Caithness wintering Greenland White-fronted Geese.



The press release reads:



Bright future for mainland Britain's most northerly wetlands





One of the most important breeding sites in northern Britain for wading… Continue

Posted by Tony Fox on March 4, 2008 at 9:08am

Anne Fox

Interactive Google map for Britain

There is now an interactive Google map for all the British sites up on the British site inventory page at http://www.greenlandwhitefront.org/Inventory.html. But you can see it by clicking on the link below. Click on a marker to find out a bit more about the site and to have a link to further information.…



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Posted by Anne Fox on February 2, 2008 at 8:41pm

Tony Fox

Opening posting!

This is something of a momentous event! We are currently compiling a detailed winter site inventory for the Greenland White-fronted Goose, and realised that we needed to be able to receive contributions from others in order to continuously improve the available information on the web site. The natural solution was to create this blog and invite the comments of others, both as a narrative to our general knowledge about Greenland White-fronted Geese, but also specifically to comment on the web…

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Posted by Tony Fox on January 27, 2008 at 12:48pm

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Paul Tarling updated their profile Mar 27, 2010
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Paul Tarling is now a member of The Greenland White-fronted Goose Study Mar 27, 2010
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Richard Luxmoore left a comment for Anne Fox
Hi Anne, Thanks for the tip. I've now accessed the new site. I stay at Keills and would be happy to carry out regular monitoring of the flock here. Who does the counts at present? Richard
Jan 5, 2010
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Anne Fox left a comment for Richard Luxmoore
Hi Richard You will have noticed that there is not a great deal of activity here. We have recently migrated the website to a space which should be a little more interactive so I would advise going over to http://www.greenlandwhitefront.org
Jan 3, 2010
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Anne Fox left a comment for Davy Tee
Hi there, we have recently updated the website so that it is a bit more interactive so this space will probably not be very active now. Take a look at http://www.greenlandwhitefront.org
Jan 3, 2010
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Richard Luxmoore is now a member of The Greenland White-fronted Goose Study Mar 16, 2009
 
 
 

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