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Index of Subjects Hi Peter and All Snow Geese have become somewhat like spam - their numbers are at an alltime high - and not everyone is pleased. There is a school which says their Artic nestgrounds are been overgrazed - so badly that other birds are being affected. Their limiting factor used to be winter grazing in the south. Modern farms have removed this bottleneck so there is a population explusion. As they have plenty food in Quebec and parts south, they never found it necessary to expand to the Maritimes - a few ocassionally but since a lot of farm geese are white and can fly. A casual glance at a few birds hardly defines what you are seeing. CWS has introduced extensive modifications to the hunting rules in Quebec in an effort to ease the pressure on the northern nesting grounds but it seems to have had little effect. A few less adults = more grazing for the rest = more young! An interesting bird. and a good Christmas dinner! Enjoy the winter Paul --- Hubcove@aol.com wrote: > We usually see similar numbers of birds on the > Delmarva peninsula in January > on our way South. Typically several thousand birds > in on field generally > South of the Dover Delaware area. > Peter Stow > Hubbards > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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