Twenty-four hour behavior patterns and budgets of free-ranging reindeer in winter

W. B. Collins; T. S. Smith

doi:10.7557/2.9.1.766

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Twenty-four hour behavior patterns and budgets of free-ranging reindeer in winter

W. B. Collins·T. S. Smith

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Abstract

To obtain movement data on wild fulvous tree ducks (Dendrocygna bicolor) 165 immature pen-reared fulvous tree ducks were color-marked and released in three southeast Texas counties in July October 1969/70. Nine (5 percent) of the marked birds were recovered from 3 days to 9 months after release, and an additional 15 birds provided sight records. Many released birds apparently became integrated into the wild population; all of those observed were with wild flocks. Six birds were recovered over 50 miles from the release sites. Four released in late July to mid-September had moved eastward and two went southward in September or later. Five were still in the Texas-Louisiana rice belt (three in late November). The sixth bird was recovered in October in Veracruz, which supports the assumption that U.S. Gulf Coast nesting populations winter in southern Mexico.

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W. B. Collins, T. S. Smith. 1989-06-01. Twenty-four hour behavior patterns and budgets of free-ranging reindeer in winter. https://doi.org/10.7557/2.9.1.766

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