R53, R58 and R33 are silent but Ingunn, Danuta and Lukasz seem to settle down. Pink footed geese are monogamous meaning that they have one partner for the whole life (unless something bed happens like in our case:). While female is incubating eggs, male is guarding the territory around the nest and takes care of the female. That is why all the positions come from one spot because males basically do not move much at this time. Below is a zoomed in example of the positions of guarding male:
and the overview where are our geese now. Johnny is still looking for a place to nest (if this is still possible so late in the season) and is now in Edgeøya. This is well known pre-nesting place of pink footed geese.
It is amazing that all our geese tagged last year show such site fidelity: they nest in almost exactly the same position as last year. Below is the map with the positions of Ingunn: filled circles 2011 and ringed circles 2012:
and the nests locations (from 2011 and 2012) of Danuta.
Map reproduced with permission from Norwegian Polar Institute using TopoSvalbard.
and Lukasz:
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