News from BirdLife International
14-12-2006
Satellite-tracking reveals new migration route for Lesser White-fronts
Further light has been shed on the migratory movements of the highly-threatened population of Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus, as a result of on-going satellite tracking studies financed with an EU-LIFE grant. ...Previous satellite tracking studies had shown that the Fennoscandian population had two different migratory routes, but the final destination for some of the population was largely unknown. In this early study, satellite-tracking showed that the main flyway for the geese went from their breeding area in the Fennoscandian mountains, through the Kanin Peninsula in Russia, south through eastern Hungary and finally to wintering grounds in the Evros River Delta, on the border of Greece and Turkey. ...
http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2006/12/lesser_whitefronted_geese.html
