Sacrifice of Three Wild Geese

The 'wild geese'.

On 3 October 1691 the Treaty of Limerick was signed by William III's commander in the field (Ginkle) and the Lords Justices, and Patrick Sarsfield, James II's Lieutenant. It provided for the transport to France of any Jacobite forces who wished to go, in all some 1 1,000 officers and men, including Sarsfield who followed on 22 December. These, and later recruits from the sons of the old Irish n...

Running Head: NOVEL APMV FROM WILD GEESE IN JAPAN

Aquatic Bird Bornavirus 1 in Wild Geese, Denmark

To investigate aquatic bird bornavirus 1 in Europe, we examined 333 brains from hunter-killed geese in Denmark in 2014. Seven samples were positive by reverse transcription PCR and were 98.2%-99.8% identical; they were also 97.4%-98.1% identical to reference strains of aquatic bird bornavirus 1 from geese in North America.

Wild geese do not increase flight behaviour prior to migration.

Hypertrophy of the flight muscles is regularly observed in birds prior to long-distance migrations. We tested the hypothesis that a large migratory bird would increase flight behaviour prior to migration, in order to cause hypertrophy of the flight muscles, and upregulate key components of the aerobic metabolic pathways. Implantable data loggers were used to record year-round heart rate in six ...

Are declining populations of wild geese in China 'prisoners' of their natural habitats?

While wild goose populations wintering in North America and Europe are mostly flourishing by exploiting farmland, those in China (which seem confined to natural wetlands) are generally declining. Telemetry devices were attached to 67 wintering wild geese of five different species at three important wetlands in the Yangtze River Floodplain (YRF), China to determine habitat use. 50 individuals of...