I know I have written already that I will post less and less posts on this blog, but this may be the proper last one or at least the last one regarding the positions. After two seasons the project is over. We received many very interesting data which are currently being analysed. And we do not receive any more positions. Probably after summer, we are going to write to ARGOS to switch all the transmitters off.
Here is the short summary of what had happened to our birds.We tagged 11 birds. Out of 11 tags we found two, four tags are in the middle of nowhere and for the remaining five we can only speculate.
Caroline's tag was found last year by John Frikke (in April 2012). The goose has been seen later on so we know is alive.
Thanx to Jørgen Peter Kjeldsen from Ornit, we got one more tag back, this time from Lukasz.
Fot. Jørgen Peter Kjeldsen
Look, how is the antenna chewed . This goose must have worked pretty hard to destroy it. Also you can see that the harness is a bit loose. When we 'designed' our attachment system, we wanted harness to 'work' just for two-three years to be sure that geese do not carry unnecessary weight after the project is over. We made it out of knicker elastic, something most of us has at home. Elastic tend to get loose after sometime, This system seems to work well for our project.
We know that four other tags have been detached from the birds: Gitte and Johnny have lost their tags in Svalbard, but this is too remote area to go and pick up the tags. R33 lost its tag in Filsø in Denmark. There is a big project going on up there, where a huge lake is being restored. Apparently, the speed of rising water is this lake is faster than we are, and the tag is probably under water now (I would like to thank Ole Amstrup for his effort). Finally, the tag of R37 is in mid-Norway but it only gave us not very precise ARGOS positions, so to find it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Finally what happened with the rest of our guys we don't know. As I wrote we do not receive any positions anymore. None of the geese have been seen this year by any goose observers. So finger crossed we get to know what is going on as soon as possible. Here is the map with the last positions from the 'missing' geese:
I promised in one of the last year's tag to show you a movie from one of the goose catch. Please be patient because I really believe that one day I will have time to finish it :)
I will also post some short note about my results from data analysis (this may be sooner than the movie:)
Last but not least I would like to thank all of you for being with me during this project, visiting the blog and being so keen on what is going on with our geese.
Hope to see you in the field:)
Here is the short summary of what had happened to our birds.We tagged 11 birds. Out of 11 tags we found two, four tags are in the middle of nowhere and for the remaining five we can only speculate.
Caroline's tag was found last year by John Frikke (in April 2012). The goose has been seen later on so we know is alive.
Thanx to Jørgen Peter Kjeldsen from Ornit, we got one more tag back, this time from Lukasz.
Look, how is the antenna chewed . This goose must have worked pretty hard to destroy it. Also you can see that the harness is a bit loose. When we 'designed' our attachment system, we wanted harness to 'work' just for two-three years to be sure that geese do not carry unnecessary weight after the project is over. We made it out of knicker elastic, something most of us has at home. Elastic tend to get loose after sometime, This system seems to work well for our project.
We know that four other tags have been detached from the birds: Gitte and Johnny have lost their tags in Svalbard, but this is too remote area to go and pick up the tags. R33 lost its tag in Filsø in Denmark. There is a big project going on up there, where a huge lake is being restored. Apparently, the speed of rising water is this lake is faster than we are, and the tag is probably under water now (I would like to thank Ole Amstrup for his effort). Finally, the tag of R37 is in mid-Norway but it only gave us not very precise ARGOS positions, so to find it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Finally what happened with the rest of our guys we don't know. As I wrote we do not receive any positions anymore. None of the geese have been seen this year by any goose observers. So finger crossed we get to know what is going on as soon as possible. Here is the map with the last positions from the 'missing' geese:
I promised in one of the last year's tag to show you a movie from one of the goose catch. Please be patient because I really believe that one day I will have time to finish it :)
I will also post some short note about my results from data analysis (this may be sooner than the movie:)
Last but not least I would like to thank all of you for being with me during this project, visiting the blog and being so keen on what is going on with our geese.
Hope to see you in the field:)
