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Catching geese! Geese moult their flightfeathers all at the same time, during the
Subject: Catching geese! Geese moult their flightfeathers all at the same time, during the
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Catching geese! Geese moult their flightfeathers all at the same time, during the


Bureau mulder-natuurlijk: siberie 2005

En
route to a place where geese are moulting. Upon spotting us, they
immediately plunge into the water, where they feel save.

Catching geese! Geese moult their flightfeathers all at the same time, during the
time they have to spend walking anyway, accompanying their chicks. First a
trap of standing nets is constructed, than the geese are chased into it.
It
is as simple as that. However, one species is not the other.
Whitefronted
geese
Anser albifrons
for instance
are reluctant to leave the water when chased, and do not form very dense
groups. Yet we sometimes managed to drive part of the thousands of moulting
Whitefronts into the nets. The bleak scenery of the Pyasina delta: unending
flats of silt with meandering creeks in between.

anser albifrons
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