Portal to the Lesser White-fronted Goose
- by the Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose project
About piskulka.net
The Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus (Linnaeus, 1758) (other languages) is at present one of the most endangered bird species in the Palearctic. The clearly most important negative factor is the high mortality due to poaching. Also loss of natural habitat contribute negatively. It is a habitat specialist, in contrast to the close relative the White-fronted Goose, who has adapted to feeding in agricultural land.
The 'Portal to the Lesser White-fronted Goose' is meant to be a resource for information about wild populations and supply information about ongoing research and conservation.
Have you seen a Lesser White-fronted Goose or read colour rings? To successfully save this species from extinction do we need YOUR effort and information. Every little helps!
Wonder about the www.piskulka.net address? Piskulka - Пискулька - is the official Russian name for Lesser White-fronted Goose.
Recent observations
02 April 2020, Vince-fenék, Hortobágy National Park, Hajdú-Bihar county, Hungary 103 LWfG observed. Around 2 pm. With 2 GWfG, in a separated flock. Mr. Blue was amongst them.
30 March 2020, Kungyörgy major, Hortobágy National Park, Hajdú-Bihar, Hungary 19 LWfG observed. 84 + 19 in separate homogeneous groups.
Latest photo
05 March 2020, Hungary.
Recent news
Successful catching of Lessers in Chukotka 2018 In 2018 we captured adult Lesser White-fronted geese...
7 December 2018
Autumn migration of Fennoscandian Lessers mapped with gps-collar “Mr. Blue” is a male Lesser White-fronted Goose that...
22 September 2018
Recent publications
Emtsev, A. A. & Porgunyov, A. V. 2020. Additional information about the lesser white-fronted goose migration stops in the Surgut district of the Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous okrug — Ugra and the problem of species conservation Bulletin of Nizhnevartovsk State University 2020(1): 98–103 doi: 10.36906/2311-4444/20-1/15 (In Russian)Rogacheva, H. 1959. On the fauna of the birds and mammals of the Yenisey taiga and forest-tundra. In: Geography of terrestrial animal populations and methodology of studying them. USSR Acad. Sci. Pub. Moscow. Pp.:197-207. (In Russian)
