Estimated Survival Rates of Canada Geese within the Atlantic Flyway
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 53 (1) , 91-96
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3801312
Abstract
Project personnel banded 28,849 Canada geese (Branta canadensis) with aluminum leg bands and individually coded neck bands in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina from 1983 to 1986. The mean annual neck band retention rate was 99.3 .+-. 0.3 (SE)% from retrap data of previously banded geese. The annual survival rate for the flyway was 77.3 .+-. 3.8% using band-recovery analyses from 1,008 recoveries of 13,331 postseason-banded geese and 70.9 .+-. 1.3% using mark-resight data. Annual changes in the distribution of wintering geese were caused, in part, by changes in annual survival rate.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Numerical Estimation of Survival Rates from Band-Recovery and Biotelemetry DataThe Journal of Wildlife Management, 1983