Waterbird News

Waterbird News, the newsletter of the Wetland Bird Survey and the Goose & Swan Monitoring Programme, is produced annually to give counters updates on what has been going on, primarily in WeBS, but also in the wider world of waterbird conservation. (Waterbirdnews used to be called WeBS News.)

We are always on the look out for articles and short stories from WeBS Counters, so if you fancy telling everyone what makes your WeBS site so special to you or perhaps you have some amusing anecdotes from your time as a WeBS counter we would love to hear from you: webs@bto.org.

**40th issue of Waterbird News**

Every autumn, around 60,000 Greylag Geese travel from Iceland to winter in the UK, with about 75% of these wintering on Orkney.

As Icelandic Greylag Geese are a population monitored by the African Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA), accurate counts of their numbers across the flyway are needed, however, the presence of a large number of resident Greylag Geese on Orkney makes being able to accurately assess the Icelandic population increasingly difficult.

Read issue 40