Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Two localities, the Taw/Torridge Estuary and the Towyn/Laugharne Marshes, remain suitable habitats for greater white-fronted geese (Anser albifrons) and might attract the birds once more if disturbance due to military airfields were to stop. This also applies to other declining haunts where disturbance is to blame, notably the Burry Inlet and in the Severn and Camlad valleys near Welshpool. Beyond knowing that protection from disturbance of both roost and feeding-grounds has been followed by an increase in numbers, as in the Avon valley, there is little practical knowledge of how to encourage the birds further by possible improvement of the habitat.
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/disturb/bibli145.htm
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