The Bulletin
GOOSE BULLETIN is the official bulletin of the Goose Specialist Group of Wetlands International and IUCN-Species Survival Commission.
From February 1991 till November 1996 regular bulletins were mailed to interested goose biologists from the National Environmental Research Institute in Kalø, Denmark. The 8th and last issue appeared in November 1996. Since October 2009, this bulletin appears twice per year in a digital form.
For those who do not have access to the World Wide Web a printed copy can be ordered from:
Bart Ebbinge, Goose Specialist Group
Alterra
P.O. Box 47
NL- 6700 AA WAGENINGEN
The Netherlands
Published proceedings or statements
The Norwegian Polar Institute organized a special meeting on the goose populations breeding on the Svalbard archipelago in September 1997 in Oslo. The proceedings of this symposium have been published as Skrifter 200: Research on Arctic Geese, Proceedings of the Svalbard Goose Symposium, Oslo, Norway, 23-26 September 1997. This report costs NOK 200,- and can be ordered from the Norwegian Polar Institute, Polarmiljøsenteret, N-9096 Tromsø, Norway. tel. +47 77 75 05 00 or by e-mail: sales@npolar.no
Literature
- The Goose Specialist Group made an impressive compilation (edited by Jesper Madsen, Tony Fox & Gill Cracknell) of our knowledge on the status and distribution of the goose populations of the western palearctic. This book is not for sale anymore, but a digital copy can be downloaded for free from: http://issuu.com/jesper_madsen/docs/goosepopulationswestpalearctic or from http://bios.au.dk/en/knowledge-exchange/about-our-research-topics/animals-and-plants/mammals-and-birds/goose-populations-of-the-western-palearctic/
- The latest edition of the Wildfowl journal are now also available online, for free, at http://www.wwt.org.uk/what-we-do/publications/wildfowl/archive/wildfowl-issue-61/.