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PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:56 am 
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WWT Census suggest Pink-footed Goose Decline.

Survey results recently published by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) reveal that the population of pink-footed geese may have dropped by around 100,000 in just the last two years.

The majority of the world’s pink-footed geese winter in the UK, having bred in Iceland and Greenland.

They arrive in big numbers from their breeding grounds this month and conservationists will be counting them at roosts, mainly in Norfolk, Lancashire and Scotland, to see whether their fortunes have bounced back.

Though the population is still estimated to be at least 250,000, and was once as low as 30,000 in the 1950s, the apparent drop of more than a quarter between 2009 and 2011 is possibly an early warning of changing fortunes.

For full details read: http://www.wwt.org.uk/news/news/2012/10 ... -decrease/

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