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Data from Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) Overwintering in Three Lagoons Along the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1991
End Date
2013

Citation

Ward, D.H., 2023, Data from black brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) overwintering in three lagoons along the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico (ver 2.0, February 2024): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7T43R88

Summary

This data package includes two folders of data from Pacific Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) during winter and migration periods. One folder has data from brant wintering along the Baja California Peninsula and Sonoran coasts of Mexico. The data include: (1) body mass and morphological measurements from sport hunter harvested brant, and (2) census counts of brant in Bahia de San Quintin, (3) counts for flock age ratio determination, and (4) behavior. The other folder has data from brant tagged with VHF radio transmitters in July 1999 on the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska and detected in the following two years during their annual migration. Data include: 1) one table with attributes of the tagged brant, 2) one table with estimated [...]

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versionHistory.txt 1.33 KB text/plain

Purpose

These data were collected to understand the population dynamics of Pacific Black Brant that spend the non-breeding season in Mexico.

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