70 Barnacle Geese on Kolguev Island
©Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Wildfowl
(2013) 63: 56–71
Wetlands and Waterfowl Research (IWWR)
e.V., the European White-fronted Goose
Research Programme and the Wadden Sea
National Park Administration of Lower
Saxony, which was funded by the Federal
Agency for Nature Conservation under the
Federal Ministry for the Environment,
Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
(FKZ 3510 860 1000), the Niedersächsische
Wattenmeerstiftung and the Committee for
Bird Protection. J. Mooij, Ch. Zöckler, Y.
Anisimov, F. Kasanski, J. Dierschke, C.
Ketzer, N. Feige, P. Glazov, V. Buzun, Ye.
Jatcuk, I. Lysansky, A. Dolgova, O.
Pokrovskaya, D. Dorofeev, A. Dmitriev, S.
Rozenfeld, F. Hillig, V. Chuiko, D.
Ochinashko, V. Blüml, G. Reichert, H.
Ernst, P. de Vries, G. Nikolaus, A. Fritzsch
and E. Bünemann took part in our Kolguev
expeditions and provided invaluable help
with the fieldwork. For excellent technical
assistance we would like to thank R.
Bolshakov, who was ECORA project
coordinator for Kolguev, A. Vokuev
(Barents Secretariat, Naryan-Mar) and the
Department of International Affairs at the
Nenets Autonomous Okrug Administration
(Naryan-Mar). We also thank colleagues
from the Institute for Avian Research
“Vogelwarte Helgoland” for collaboration
in 2011 and 2012.
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