Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose Conservation Project Report 2001–2003

Edited by Tomas Aarvak & Sami Timonen WWF Finland Report No 20 Norwegian Ornithological Society, NOF Rapportserie Report no. 1-2004

Contents

Cover (in colour) (PDF file, 629 KB) , illustrations by © Jari Kostet
back cover: separating Lesser White-fronted and White-fronted Geese in the field

PDF part 1 (pp. 1–35) (PDF file, 1913 KB)

• 5 Introduction, by Petteri Tolvanen, Tomas Aarvak, Ingar J. Øien & Sami Timonen
• 9 Monitoring of Lesser White-fronted Geese in western Estonia in 2001–2003, by Petteri Tolvanen, Maire Toming & Jyrki Pynnönen
• 14 The spring migration of the Lesser White-fronted Goose on Bothnian Bay coast, Finland, in 2001-2003, by Juha Markkola, Aappo Luukkonen & Ari Leinonen
• 19 Monitoring of staging Lesser White-fronted Geese at the Valdak Marshes, Norway, in the years 2001-2003, by Tomas Aarvak & Ingar Jostein Øien
• 25 Monitoring spring migration of Lesser White-fronted Goose in Finnish and Norwegian Lapland, and surveys in former core breeding area in Finland in 2001-2003, by Riikka Kaartinen
• 27 Monitoring the autumn migration of Lesser White-fronted Goose in Varangerfjord area, Norway, in 2001–2003, by Riikka Kaartinen & Jyrki Pynnönen
• 29 The autumn migration survey of Lesser White-fronted Goose in Bothnian Bay area, Finland, in 2002, by Aappo Luukkonen & Juha Markkola
• 30 Field survey of Lesser White-fronted Goose at the Kola Peninsula, north-western Russia, in June 2001, by Sami Timonen & Petteri Tolvanen
• 33 Migration of Lesser White-fronted Goose in Hungary and protection of their Hungarian staging sites, by János Tar

PDF part 2 (pp. 36–57) (PDF file, 1625 KB)

• 36 Inventories and catching attempts of Lesser White-fronted Geese at Lake Kulykol, Kazakstan, in 2002 and 2003, by Tomas Aarvak, Aki Arkiomaa, Petteri Tolvanen & Ingar J. Øien
• 41 Conservation work for the wetlands in Kustanay region, north-western Kazakstan, in 2001–2003, by Petteri Tolvanen, Tatyana Bragina & Evgeny Bragin
• 44 Distribution of Lesser White-fronted Goose in the Malozemelskaya Tundra in Northern Russia, by Oleg Yu. Mineev & Yurij N. Mineev
• 47 Survey of wintering Lesser White-fronted Geese in Crimea, Ukraine in 2002, by Tomas Aarvak, Alexander Grinchenko, Gustaf Nordenswan, Vladimir Popenko & Jyrki Pynnönen
• 50 Lesser White-fronted Geese shot in Spain in the winters 1985/86-2000/01, by Hakon Persson
• 51 The reintroduction of the Lesser White-fronted Goose in Swedish Lapland – a summary for 2000-2003, by Åke Andersson
• 52 SHORT NEWS
  - Winter bird survey in the Lower Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River Basin, China
  - The occurence and protection status of the Lesser White-fronted Goose in Georgia
  - New spring observations of Lesser White-fronted Geese migrating across south and south east regions of Kazakhstan
  - Illegal hunting in Norway
  - New web site: Portal to the Lesser White-fronted Goose
  - The entire European breeding population of Lesser White-fronted Goose wintering in the Evros delta, Greece?
  - New threats to the core breeding area of the Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Geese
  - An informative web site for Red Data books in central Asia
  - The Red Data Book of the Republic of Uzbekistan has been published in 2003
• 56 APPENDIX. Publications of the Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project during the report period

Recommended citation for the whole report: Aarvak, T. & Timonen, S. (eds.) 2004: Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project. Report 2001–2003 – WWF Finland Report No 20 & Norwegian Ornithological Society, NOF Rapportserie report no. 1-2004.

Recommended citation for articles, e.g.: Kaartinen, R. 2004: Monitoring the autumn migration of Lesser White-fronted Goose in Varangerfjord area, Norway, in 2001-2003. In: Aarvak, T. & Timonen, S. (eds.): Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project. Report 2001–2003. – WWF Finland Report No 20 & Norwegian Ornithological Society, NOF Rapportserie report no. 1-2004: 27-28.

Contributors: Tomas Aarvak, Aki Arkiomaa, Åke Andersson, Evgeny Bragin, Tatyana Bragina, Alexander Grinchenko, Riikka Kaartinen, Aappo Luukkonen, Juha Markkola, Oleg Yu. Mineev, Yurij N. Mineev, Gustaf Nordenswan, Ingar Jostein Øien, Hakon Persson, Vladimir Popenko, Jyrki Pynnönen, János Tar, Sami Timonen, Petteri Tolvanen and Maire Toming

Layout: Kalle Ruokolainen

Printed version of this report and previous reports of the Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project available from: Ingar Jostein Øien, Norwegian Ornithological Society (NOF), Sandgata 30 B, N-7012 Trondheim, Norway, and Petteri Tolvanen, WWF Finland, Lintulahdenkatu 10, FIN-00500 Helsinki, Finland

The Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project is sponsored by the Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management and the Finnish Ministry of the Environment.

More information about the Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation:

• www.piskulka.net
• Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project – Annual report 2000
• Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose conservation project – Annual report 1999