Bean geese 1981, Dumfries and Galloway (1 Viewer)

I remember Many years ago seeing bean geese wintering in the Loch Ken area. Recent research has suggested these were Taiga. But I received an email from eBird yesterday suggesting my report is erroneous.

Advice would be helpful.

That's my recollection, though they'd gone from the area before I ever visited over there. The talk I'd heard (verbal, don't know if documented, unfortunately) was that it was basically the same population that has ended up in the Slamannan area now.

More details about the Ken-Dee Marshes Taiga Bean Geese in the linked document (see pg 23).

Looks like up to 400-500 birds wintered there in the 1930s, reducing to c200 in the early fifties, after which a steady decline over the next 30 years resulted in them abandoning the site completely. So 1981 or thereabouts probably saw the last remaining birds wintering there.

As Nutcracker says, it's the same population that now winter in the Slamannan area.

https://monitoring.wwt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Waterbird-Review-Series-Bean-Goose.pdf

Thanks. I thought I was right