Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project - Annual report 1999

WWF Finland Report No 12 & Norwegian Ornithological Society, NOF Rapportserie Report no. 1-2000. Edited by Petteri Tolvanen, Ingar Jostein Øien and Kalle Ruokolainen.

Contents

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Cover (434 Kb) A short summary of the identification of the Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser erythropus) and White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons)
Front cover illustration: An adult Lesser White-fronted Goose (second from left in the lower row) in a flock of three adult and one juvenile (first from left in the upper row) White-fronted Geese.The similarity of these two species is one of the major problems in the conservation of the Lesser White-fronted Goose.© Jari Kostet 1999. Back cover illustrations: (see back cover texts) © Jari Kostet 1999

Introduction (645 Kb) by Petteri Tolvanen, Juha Markkola, Ingar Jostein Øien and Tomas Aarvak (pp. 5-8)

Lesser White-Fronted Goose survey at the East Dongting and Poyang Lakes in China, February 1999 (415 Kb) by Juha Markkola, Shigeki Iwabuchi, Lei Gang, Tomas Aarvak, Petteri Tolvanen and Ingar Jostein Øien (pp. 9-15)

Status of Lesser White-fronted Goose in China (264 Kb) by Lei Gang (pp. 16-17)

Monitoring of Lesser White-fronted Geese in western Estonia in 1999 (304 Kb) by Petteri Tolvanen, Risto Karvonen, Petro Pynnönen and Aivar Leito (pp. 18-21)

The spring migration of the Lesser White-fronted Goose at the Bothnian Bay in 1999 (184 Kb) by Sami Timonen (pp. 22-23)

Monitoring of staging Lesser White-fronted Geese at the Valdak Marshes in 1999 (220 Kb) by Tomas Aarvak and Ingar Jostein Øien (pp. 24-27)

Monitoring Lesser White-fronted Geese in the Varangerfjord area and eastern Finnmark in 1999 (430 Kb) by Petteri Tolvanen (pp. 28-31)

Spring migration of Lesser White-fronted Geese in north-western Europe - an analysis from individual markings (228 Kb) by Tomas Aarvak, Sami Timonen, Ingar Jostein Øien, Petteri Tolvanen and Juha Markkola (pp. 32-33)

Field surveys in possible breeding areas of Lesser White-fronted Goose in Lapland and Finnmark (18 Kb) by Jarmo Pääläinen and Sami Timonen (p. 34)

Surveys for Lesser White-fronted Goose in the Bolshezemelskaya Tundra, European Russia, in 1999 (667 Kb) by Vladimir V. Morozov (pp. 35-38)

New breeding and moulting areas of Lesser White-fronted Goose revealed in Indigirka, Yakutia (66 Kb) by Evgeny E. Syroechkovski, Jr. (pp. 39-40)

The status of Lesser White-fronted Goose in the Kola Peninsula, north-western Russia (54 Kb) by Esko Aikio, Sami Timonen, Natalia Ripatti and Erkki Kellomäki (pp. 41-42)

Monitoring the autumn staging of Lesser White-fronted Geese in Kazakstan, October 1999 (1,1 Mb) by Petteri Tolvanen, Toni Eskelin, Tomas Aarvak, Götz Eichhorn, Ingar Jostein Øien & Elena Gurtovaya (pp. 43-50) including Establishment of a network of protected areas for waterfowl and other wetland birds in north-western Kazakstan by Tatyana M. Bragina (p. 48)

Occurrence of the Lesser White-fronted Goose in Spain, up to 1999 (36 Kb)
by Hakon Persson (pp. 51-52)

The Swedish project on re-establishment of the Lesser White-fronted Goose in Swedish Lapland - a summary for 1999 (215 Kb) by Lambart von Essen, Anders Bylin and Bo Fagerström (pp.52-53)

Genetic composition of the captive Lesser White-fronted Goose population (not available as pdf) by Minna Ruokonen (pp. 54-56; contact Minna Ruokonen, Petteri Tolvanen or Ingar Jostein Øien to get a printed copy)

Short news (358 Kb)
- Lesser White-fronted Goose exhibition (p. 56)
- Lesser White-fronted Goose protected in Turkmenia (p. 57)
- New information about wintering Lesser White-fronted Geese in Uzbekistan (p. 57)
- Status on the awareness campaign for the Lesser White-fronted Goose (p. 57-58)
- New Lesser White-Fronted Goose data from Lithuania (pp. 58-59)
- Observations of Lesser White-fronted Geese in Central Europe in autumn 1999 (p. 60)
- New wintering area for Lesser White-fronted Geese in Crimea Peninsula, Ukraine (p. 60)

Appendices (56 Kb) Appendix A: Co-operation partners and contacts (pp. 61-62) Appendix B: Publications from the Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project in the report period (p. 63) Appendix C: Annotated checklist of birds observations during the Lesser White-fronted Goose surveys in Kazakstan, October 1999 (pp. 64-67)

Recommended citation for the whole report: Tolvanen, P., Øien, I.J. & Ruokolainen, K. (eds.) 2000: Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project. Annual report 1999. - WWF Finland Report 12 & Norwegian Ornithological Society, NOF Rapportserie Report no. 1-2000.

Recommended citation for articles, e.g.: Timonen, S. 2000: The spring migration of the Lesser White-fronted Goose at Bothnian Bay in 1999. In: Tolvanen, P., Øien, I.J. & Ruokolainen, K. (eds.): Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project. Annual report 1999. - WWF Finland Report 12 & Norwegian Ornithological Society, NOF Rapportserie Report no. 1-2000: 22-23.

Contributors

Tomas Aarvak, Esko Aikio, Leo van den Bergh, Tatyana Bragina, Valery Buzun, Anders Bylin, Götz Eichhorn, Toni Eskelin, Lambart von Essen, Bo Fagerström, Alexander Grinchenko, Elena Gurtovaya, Shigeki Iwabuchi, Risto Karvonen, Erkki Kellomäki, Alexander Kondratyev, Irina Kostadinova, Elena Kreuzberg-Mukhina, Lei Gang, Aivar Leito, Juha Markkola, Vladimir Morozov, Hakon Persson, Petro Pynnönen, Jarmo Pääläinen, Natalia Ripatti, Minna Ruokonen, Darius Stoncius, Evgeny Syroechkovski Jr., Sami Timonen, Petteri Tolvanen and Ingar Jostein Øien

Layout: Kalle Ruokolainen

Printed version of this report and previous annual reports of the Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project available from: Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society (NOF), Seminarplassen 5, N-7540 Klæbu, Norway and Petteri Tolvanen, WWF Finland, Lintulahdenkatu 10, FIN-00500 Helsinki, Finland

This publication was sponsored byThe Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management and EU Life-Nature fund / Finnish Lesser White-fronted Goose Life project.

More information about the Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation:

• www.metsa.fi/natural/projects/lwfg/index.htm
• Goose Specialist Group of Wetlands International