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TREC Virtual Base Camp _ Ask the Scientist - Brian Person _ question

Posted by: Ben Sep 13 2005, 05:55 PM

How many geese a day do you think you band?

Posted by: Brian_Person Sep 13 2005, 10:18 PM

That depends on the weather because we don't want to stress the animals out if it's too hot or too cold. I guess that it also depends on the type of goose and the number of people that are helping you. We were banding about 400 geese a day but allot of time was spent driving the geese to the catch pen. When I worked on Black Brant geese in SW Alaska we would have banding drives of up to 2000 geese a day. Those were some long days though!

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