La Tour du Valat

Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	Occurrence of Brent Goose Branta b. bernicla in the Greifswalder Bodden, southern Baltic Sea, Germany.
Auteurs :	Rainer Bendt, Auteur ; Ronald Abraham, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Vogelwelt (Die) (124(3) 2003)
Article en page(s) :	151-156
Résumé :	Annually a few hundred Brent Geese spend several weeks between March and the end of May in the western part of the Greifswalder Bodden, a shallow bay on the Baltic Sea coast of eastern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Their numbers decreased slightly over the past 20 years. The geese feed almost exclusively from the water surface, mostly far offshore, and do not use the nearby salt marshes or meadows. This is very different compared with other staging areas in Western and Central Europe. In autumn. Brent Geese are irregular visitors in small numbers, but in 1999 several thousand passed through on 15-17 Oct. A male ringed on the Island of Langenwerder (150 km to the west) was subsequently recorded in Greifswalder Bodden during several spring seasons, and also on the French Atlantic Coast coast (winter), the Dutch and German Wadden Sea (spring) and in the breeding area in North Siberia.

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