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Show ; V m . . . i . . ' : ' . " ''' . fAv '.-: '; ":v;;v,: . - ; . ' 1 .1 .- : I $ -.. - , i i - . .'. '. , ! r . -' : " .) . ' f t The Canada Goose was the target of a recent "banding" project by Division of Wildlife Resources Annual D WR qoose banding a success Late June and early July marked the annual goose banding ban-ding activities of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources waterfowl management team. The trapping and banding efforts were again highly successful. suc-cessful. Waterfowl managers trapped trap-ped in six different sites this year and put new leg bands on 2,231 geese. There were 317 "retraps," which are birds already wearing the numbered number-ed leg bands. The total number num-ber of geese trapped this year was 2,548, compared to 1,741 in 1976. "Our survey activities last year revealed an unusually high production rate among our Canada goose populations, waterfowl biologists. Over 2,200 geese were baj said Clair Jensen, waterfowl biologist, "which explains, in part at least, why there was also a high number of birds captured this year. We experienced exper-ienced a dramatic decrease in the number of this year's young captured in our traps, however." Jensen explained that there are many factors w hich affect population levels among the geese. The large number of birds produced last year resulted re-sulted in a proportionately large number of birds in this year's population that were too young to breed. In addition, addi-tion, some broods were already al-ready hatched this spring when the week of rain and snow hit Utah's marshes, resulting in some mortality among young birds, further reducing the typical number of young birds trapped. In a SDecial Droiect at Utah Lake, biologists attached I collars with white letters t numerals on 100 geese i, effort to learn more abor. " distribution and habiti of geese using Utah Lake. this study the collars numbered with prefu of "EA" and followed r numerals from "01 u Biologists are asking for i, who harvest or post-, identify any of these r a birds to report the agitato agita-to game managers in i Lake or other regional ti-of ti-of the Division of Wj Resources. Utah has been keepi:,- ords of goose banding c ities for over 25 years u;l a long history of bi:-success. bi:-success. The projecs b biologists to more acrcx; identify migration per. and habitat used hv Ui goose populations. |