Pink-footed geese reached Vesteraalen (Nordland)

Tor Bønes reported about 100 Pink-footed geese at Langøya (Hadsel and Sortland) on sunday 25th. “The geese-areas” in Vesterålen are still covered by snow, so it’s a late spring this year.

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Nord-Trondelag 25.04.2010

Total counts of Pink-footed geese in the Nord-Troendelag area on sunday 25th gave the total number of about 40 000 Pink-footed geese (from Levanger in south to Overhalla in north).

Largest amount of geese are located in Verdal and Steinkjer.

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Forvaltningsplanen lansert

Torsdag 22. april 2010 ble “Forvaltningsplan for vår- og høstrastede kortnebbgås i Nord-Trøndelag” lansert.  Målet er en bærekraftig forvaltning med redusert konfliktnivå.

>> Link til forvaltningsplanen

>> Link til innslag på NRK – MidtNytt 22.04.10

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Status Nord-Troendelag (21.04.2010)

In the middle of day about 7 000 pink-footed geese where located at Frøsetvågen, south of Steinkjer. Also 4 barnacle geese, 4 white fronted geese and 1 bean goose among them.

Later this evening the geese where spread more out in the area – and I was not able to find them all.
According to artsobservasjoner.no there are also about 5 000 Pink-footed geese at Seemsøra, Snåsa.

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Pink-footed goose counting

On sunday 25th of April there will be a counting of Pink-footed geese in Nord-Troendelag. If people are out in the field it would be very nice if you all could add all your observations of Pink-footed geese to www.artsobservasjoner.no

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