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GREYLAG GOOSE Anser anser
Greylag Goose © Mike Weston
 
Conservation Listings

Table 4/Amber (wintering population)
Biodiversity Steering Group Conservation
Concern List
  Long term trend
UK: Increase
Riparian habitats: Rapid increase
 
Status Summary
Apart from an indigenous population in north-west Scotland and Western Isles, and winter visitors from Iceland and Scandinavia, the Greylag Goose is an introduced species throughout the UK. Breeding season monitoring information was sparse before the early 1990s, but the population shows evidence of increases since then. Winter monitoring by WeBS shows a continuing long-term increase (Musgrove et al. 2001).
 
 
Table of population changes for Greylag Goose
Source Period
(yrs)		 Years Plots
(n)		 Change
(%)		 Lower
limit		 Upper
limit		 Alert Comment
BBS UK 6 1994-2000 82 69 25 129    
BBS England 6 1994-2000 64 40 9 81    
The Breeding Bird Survey is jointly funded by BTO, JNCC and RSPB
 
 
Productivity information is not currently available for this species
 




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This report should be cited as:
Baillie, S.R., Crick, H.Q.P., Balmer, D.E., Beaven, L.P., Downie, I.S., Freeman, S.N., Leech, D.I., Marchant, J.H.,
Noble, D.G., Raven, M.J., Simpkin, A.P., Thewlis, R.M. and Wernham, C.V. (2002) Breeding Birds in the Wider
Countryside: their conservation status 2001. BTO Research Report No. 278. BTO, Thetford. (http://www.bto.org/birdtrends)

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