Fresh, 2022 maps of flights of geese wintering in the Netherlands and Germany:
Migration tracks of wild goose wintering in the Netherlands and Germany:
- Femma_3099 Track
- Bar_L6R-_2017 Track
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- Bar_L6RE_2017 Track
- Bar_L6R2_2017 Track
- Bar_L6R4_2017 Track
- Bar_L6R6_2017 Track
- Bar_WTN1_2017 Track
- Bar_L6R8_2017 Track
- Bar_L5R6_2017 Track
- Bar_L4R1_2017 Track
- Bar_L4R2_2017 Track
- Bar_L4R4_2017 Track
- Bar_WTNP_2017 Track
- Bar_WVNE_2017 Track
- Bar_L4R9_2017 Track
- Bar_WVN9_2017 Track
- Bar_WVNK_2017 Track
- Bar_WVNU_2017 Track
- Bar_Y1N3_2017 Track
- Bar_Y1N5_2017 Track
- 43_AdrieII_M Track
- 52_EvertII_M Track
- 58_WouterII_M Track
Preparing for the flight
The migration of mallards and other species to wintering does not begin suddenly. Ducks prepare in advance for a long journey.
The first thing to do is gain weight. There is a long journey ahead, and it will not always be possible to get food for yourself. Birds typically gain 15–20% additional body weight before migrating. And the weight of ducks wintering in areas remote from Russia doubles.
The migration of birds begins at night. Although ducks move not only in the dark, but also during the day. Birds choose warm, clear weather.
Wild representatives of the duck family are very sensitive to climate change. If the need arises, mallards can fly away spontaneously.
All geese migration routes 2022 on one map:
All migration routes of geese on one map (On the left, select a goose with a transmitter, below are the dates!
, so that the tracks are visible.)
Birds have been ringed for scientific purposes for over 100 years. Traditionally, metal rings were used with numbers and the name of the ringing organization engraved on them. Thanks to ringing, it was possible to learn a lot about the directions and migration routes of birds and the features of their ecology. Unfortunately, the metal ring becomes informative only when the bird can be held in your hands. In most cases, these are already dead birds; Thus, information about banded geese comes mainly from hunters. Occasionally you manage to catch a ringed bird, or read the ring number from a short distance. We will never know the fate of the vast majority of birds ringed with metal rings. Due to the fact that the return rate of metal rings is extremely low, specialists began to use colored tags. Geese are usually marked with colored leg rings and collars, the numbers of which can be read by examining the bird through binoculars, even from a great distance. To mark birds of other species, wing marks and other colored marks are used.
In addition, radio and satellite transmitters are now used to study bird migrations; However, the satellite tracking method is very expensive, and radio tracking requires significant effort and time.
Unfortunately, this kind of tracking of geese migration is short-lived. Many geese die of natural causes, some are shot by a hunter. If you come across a goose with a GPS transmitter, please inform the owner of the transmitter. The coordinates are usually indicated on the transmitter itself or on the website blessgans.de or geese.org. This will help study and preserve the world's wild geese population. Some unscrupulous hunters keep transmitters as souvenirs or try to sell them to their owners. For example, a “goose” nesting in a five-story building in Perovo in Moscow
- Rolf_3272_KY6 Track
- Mari_3269_KY4 Track
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We remind you
- Goose hunting in Ukraine is still prohibited in 2022
- Never shoot at marked birds so that it can work for future generations.
- Sightings of tagged geese can be reported online at geese.org
- Orange collars in the spring waves of geese migration are German, yellow collars are Japanese and Italian.
Last year, we already offered our readers a service for tracking the migration of migratory goose on-line. If anyone is not yet familiar with our materials and became our reader this year, we will briefly remind you of the main things last year, and then we will post the data on this year’s goose flight. So, we offer to the attention of all goose hunters
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We decided to give our readers the opportunity to learn how to track the migration of waves of migratory goose without leaving the computer.
Today we will teach you how to track your favorite hunting object directly from your monitor screen around the world. With our help, you can track the flight of geese using data from two geopositioning control systems at once.
If you click, for example, on the picture below, you will see a standard example of the migration route of a bean goose named Adri.
In autumn it flies through the Tula region, and in the spring - through the Tver region. But this does not mean that other waves of migratory goose do not exist. There are quite a lot of them, so we will put in your hands a whole mechanism for tracking waves of geese migration.
One request - so that this can work for future generations - do not shoot marked birds. Orange collars in the spring waves of geese migration are German, yellow collars are Japanese and Italian. Please let us know about any collars you see.
In real time, the flight map of a particular goose looks like this:
The use of satellite transmitters opens up new prospects for a detailed study of geese migrations, because until recently our knowledge about the flight paths of birds and their stopping places during long-distance migration from wintering sites to nesting areas in the Arctic was far from complete.
Small backpacks containing satellite transmitters draw intricate lines on maps that can be viewed online. It turned out that the geese traveled from wintering sites to nesting sites in different ways, sometimes quite unexpected for researchers. The transmitters are still in operation, transmitting data on the location of the geese every day. This data is constantly plotted on maps, which can be viewed on websites in our review, published in the section.
However, tracking a goose is not the only point in the long line of skills of the modern hunter. Within a month, in the article feed you will be able to find a series of articles on goose hunting and a monograph on geese.
Modern technologies make it possible to monitor the migration of geese in real time. Bird tracking using GPS navigation has been carried out by many organizations around the world for several years.
The most comprehensive and successful project tracks the migrations of a goose that...winters in Western Europeblessgans.de. This German site gives its visitors the opportunity to follow goose migration through the traditional Google Earth service.
The migration of our goose, wintering in Egypt, can be tracked on this site; some specimens already set off last year and reinforced themselves in Turkey (as of March 16, 2009).
However, we will teach you how to accurately track a goose to select the location and time of hunting using the world's most advanced Google Earth service.
Of course, this service is not intended for hunters at all, but, on the contrary, for scientists and wildlife defenders. But access is not denied to anyone, and therefore we will simply provide you with the opportunity not to waste your money and time.
So. First you need to install on your computer or the free version of Google Earth,
which can be downloaded from the
Google page:
https://earth.google.com/intl/ru/
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Let's try to figure out how geese fly through Belarus in the spring. And let’s do this using the example of the most numerous species – the white-fronted goose.
Weapon Selection
Semi-automatic shotguns
The semi-automatic shotgun category is especially popular among hunters. The reason for this is the ability to fire quickly. Shotguns are equipped with magazines for cartridges.
It is difficult to choose a semi-automatic gun for goose hunting. Semi-automatics suffer from destruction of the rear wall of the box and weak shock absorbers. However, there are several models with a 70mm chamber that are most suitable for goose hunting. Among them it is worth highlighting Browning Auto-5, models MC 21-12, TOZ-87.
Among the models with a 76 mm chamber, the MP-153 shotgun (with a standard barrel constriction of 0.75 or 1.0) is suitable for goose hunting. It should be borne in mind that choke tubes significantly impair shooting efficiency.
The Beretta AL 390, Beretta AL391 Urika Sporting and Remington 1100 are of high quality. However, the 1100 model is heavy (up to 3.7 kg), so it is not suitable for every hunter. The Remington is equipped with a one-piece receiver, as well as an adjustable automatic gas outlet.
Double-barreled shotguns
This type of weapon has been used for a long time, when semi-automatic weapons were not yet produced. Among double-barreled models, the popular brands are IZH: 26, 12 and 54. The models, although outdated, are very reliable.
Currently, more advanced guns are produced, for example, IZH-27M-M and IZH-39T. The MTs models 200, 109, 111 and 108 have proven well for goose hunting. However, the MCs are expensive, so they are not very common.
What is known from the literature?
At the end of the last century, visual census data were published. In the article “Features of migration of waterbirds in Belarus,” the spring migration of geese is described as follows:
“In spring, most geese migrate in east and northeast directions. In this case, a certain pattern in the direction of flight is observed. Thus, in the southern part of Belarus the eastern direction predominates, which coincides with the location of the Pripyat riverbed from west to east. The vast majority of geese fly to the east in this zone: 82.7% in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, 87.1% in the Pripyat floodplain (Pripyatsky Nature Reserve). In the south-eastern point of Belarus (the territory adjacent to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant), where the river bed. Pripyat turns to the southeast, only 20% of geese continue to adhere to the Pripyat floodplain, 34% flies further to the east, and the majority - 42% - turns to the northeast.
In the central part of the republic, most geese migrate in a northeast direction. Thus, in the floodplain of the Neman River, which flows from southeast to northwest, the main direction of flight of geese was northeast (58%) and east (25%). In the vicinity of Minsk, the eastern direction predominated (52.8% of recorded birds), 24.2% flew to the southeast and 20.3% to the northeast. In the floodplain of the river. On the Berezina River, most geese migrate in a north-easterly direction (49%).”
Thus, in spring the general direction of movement of migrating geese is from west to east.
Satellite data
Modern technologies make it possible to monitor the migration of geese in real time. Bird tracking using GPS navigation has been carried out by many organizations around the world for several years. The most comprehensive and successful project tracks the migrations of geese wintering in Western Europe. The German website blessgans.de provides its visitors with the opportunity to monitor goose migration through the traditional Google Earth service.
Some geese wintering in Western Europe fly north of Belarus in the spring. One of the main spring gathering places for geese migrating through this region is the Neman River delta. Next, the birds fly to nesting sites located in the tundra of the European North of Russia.
Another part of the geese flies through Belarus in the spring. We can say that she is less fortunate, because in the spring our birds do not receive a warm welcome at all.
And lastly, information from our Bird Banding Center
We currently have information from more than two hundred ringed birds. The average age of white-fronted geese harvested is more than three years (1046 days). The maximum age recorded from banding data is over 22 years. However, given the fact that the adult bird was ringed, its age was at least 24 years.
Based on the information received from ringed birds, it can be stated that the main wintering grounds of white-fronted geese migrating through Belarus are in Western Europe (the Netherlands, Germany, England). In 139 of 143 cases they were ringed in the Netherlands.
Information from the places where birds flying through the territory of Belarus nest is scarce, but according to available data, it can be said that the nesting area of white-fronted geese extends from the White Sea coast to at least Taimyr.
Practical advice
- Most of the unsuccessful shots occur when aiming “accurately at the target”. For accuracy, it is recommended to maintain a lead when shooting (that is, the aiming point is slightly in front of the goose). Maintaining clearance (while holding the weapon in front of the target), they fire a shot. This method of shooting is called “shooting with eyeliner”.
- There is a rule: you need to shoot not at the nearest goose, but at a distant one, but one that is within striking distance. The next shot will hit a nearby bird, allowing you to complete a doublet. Particularly successful hunters even make triplets.
- Coordination is important when hunting. Coordinated action is important not only for effective shooting, but also from a safety point of view. Therefore, you need to agree in advance on which side the shooting will take place from.
- It is better to use a shot with a lower number, but a more compact strike.
- When arranging decoys, it is recommended to evaluate the distances on the future shooting field. Some hunters make marks. Hummocks, bushes, etc. can act as landmarks.
Goose hunting is an exciting activity. A trophy obtained in such a hunt is not so much luck as it is the qualifications of the hunter, knowledge of the habits of the bird and the correct organization of the event.
