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Article: OPTING OUT OF MIGRATION: AS CLIMATE WARMS, ARCTIC-NESTING GEESE ELECT TO WINTER IN ALASKA INSTEAD OF MEXICO
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 10, 2009
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following press release:
The winter distribution of Pacific brant, a small, dark sea goose, has shifted northward from low-temperate areas such as Mexico to sub-Arctic areas as Alaska's climate has warmed over the last four decades, according to a just-released article in Arctic.
Until recently, nearly the entire (90 percent) population of Pacific brant wintered in Mexico, but now as many as to 30 percent are opting to spend their winters in Alaska instead, according to the U.S. Geological Survey-led study. Although records are sparse, fewer than 3,000 brant were detected wintering in Alaska ...