For three weeks in May the Svalbard Barnacle Geese Branta leucopsis stop to feed on the
archipelagos of the Helgeland district, up to 50 km out to sea off western Norway. However,
since 1980 an increasing part of the population has moved to a newly exploited agricultural
habitat closer to the mainland. This paper compares the foraging performance of geese
using the traditional and the new area. Differences between the habitats include
asymmetries in time budgets, plant quality, feeding performance and abdominal fatness. We …

For three weeks in May the Svalbard Barnacle Geese Brama leucopsis stop to feed on the
archipelagos of the Helgeland district, up to 50 km out to sea off western Norway. However,
since 1980 an increasing part of the population has moved to a newly exploited agricultural
habitat closer to the mainland. This paper compares the foraging performance of geese
using the traditional and the new area. Differences between the habitats include
asymmetries in time budgets, plant quality, feeding performance and abdominal fatness. We …