The food habits of Greylag and Barheaded Geese in the Keoladeo National Park, India

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1987
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van der Valk, A.
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More than 6,000 geese overwinter in the Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India. The Eastern Greylag Goose Anser anser rubrirostris is the most common goose, with a peak population of about 5,000 birds. They arrive in the Park by early November and leave by mid March, a pattern which is typical of northern India (Ali and Ripley 1968). The Barheaded Goose Anser indicus at between 500 -1,000 individuals is less numerous. They arrive in numbers by late December and leave by mid April. This goose has undergone a significant population decline in the past several decades (Gole 1982).
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This article is published as Middleton, Beth A., and A. G. Van der Valk. "The food habits of greylag and barheaded geese in the Keoladeo National Park, India." Wildfowl 38 (1987): 94-102.
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