Canada Goose-Breeding
Alaska Gap Analysis
Wildlife Habitat Relationships
Model Name
BACAGO
Taxa Code (ITIS)
174999
Scientific Name
Branta canadensis
Common Name
Canada Goose
Created By
T. Gotthardt and K. Walton
Last Modified By
T. Gotthardt and K. Walton
Date
March 2011
Date
March 2011
Model Description
Canada Goose
Branta canadensis
Breeding
Deductive Model
Habitat Description
In B.C., breeds from sea level to 1,250 m in inland and coastal marshes, islands in lakes,
ponds, sloughs, rivers, tundra, muskeg, and man-made environments with water
nearby. Most nests are with 60 m of water (Campbell et al. 1990). Broods are typically
seen along gently sloping pond or river shorelines, with mudflats or mud barrens, and
abundant short prostrate grasses, sedges, or semiaquatic plants (MacInnes 1962, O'Neil
1988, Babcock and Ely 1994, Conover 1998).
Habitat
Description
Changes
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Habitat
Description
Canada Goose-Breeding
Changes
Relationships
Elevation (m)
n/a - n/a
Associated Edge Type n/a
Ecotone Width (m) n/a
Associated with Forest Interior n/a
Forest Interior Buffer (m) n/a
Associated with Flowing Water
Distance from (m) 2000
Associated with Open/Standing Water
Associated with Wet Vegetation
Type of Salinity
Ecological System
Distance from (m) 2000
Distance from (m) 2000
Distance into (m) >4000
Distance into (m) >4000
Distance into (m) >4000
All Types
CES105.11 Western North American Sub-boreal Mesic Bluejoint Meadow
CES105.11 Western North American Boreal Lowland Large River Floodplain Forest
and Shrubland
CES105.11 Western North American Boreal Shrub and Herbaceous Floodplain
Wetland
CES105.11 Western North American Boreal Herbaceous Fen
CES105.12 Western North American Boreal Black Spruce-Tamarack Fen
CES105.12 Western North American Boreal Freshwater Emergent Marsh
CES105.12 Western North American Boreal Wet Meadow
CES105.12 Western North American Boreal Freshwater Aquatic Bed
CES105.12 Western North American Boreal Wet Black Spruce-Tussock Woodland
CES105.13 Western North American Boreal Sedge-Dwarf-Shrub Bog
CES105.13 Western North American Boreal Black Spruce Dwarf-Tree Peatland
CES105.14 Western North American Boreal Low Shrub Peatland
CES105.14 Western North American Boreal Montane Floodplain Forest and Shrubland
CES200.09 Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh
CES200.87 Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed
CES200.87 Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh
CES204.14 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Mountain Hemlock Forest
CES204.15 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Sitka Spruce Beach Ridge
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CES204.15 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Floodplain Forest and Shrubland
CES204.15 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Shrub and Herbaceous Floodplain Wetland
CES204.15 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Wet Low Shrubland
CES204.15 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Fen and Wet Meadow
CES204.15 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Coastal Meadow and Slough-Levee
CES204.16 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Mesic Herbaceous Meadow
CES204.16 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Dwarf-shrub-Sphagnum Peatland
CES204.84 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Western Hemlock Forest
CES204.84 North Pacific Hypermaritime Western Red-cedar-Western Hemlock Forest
CES204.84 North Pacific Mesic Western Hemlock-Yellow-cedar Forest
CES204.87 Temperate Pacific Intertidal Flat
CES3.2
Citations
Open Water
Babcock, C. A. and C. R. Ely. 1994. Classification of vegetation communities in which
geese rear broods on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska. Can. J. Bot. 72: 1294-1301.
Campbell, R. W., N. K. Dawe, I. McTaggart-Cowan, J. M. Cooper, G. W. Kaiser, and M. C.
E. McNall. 1990. The Birds of British Columbia. Vol. 1 and 2, Nonpasserines. UBC
Press, Vancouver, B.C.
Conover, M. R. 1998. Reproductive biology of an urban population of Canada Geese.
Pp. 67-70 In: Biology and management of Canada Geese (D. H. Rusch, M. D. Samuel, D.
D. Humburg, and B. D. Sullivan, eds.). Proc. Int. Canada Goose Symp., Milwaukee, WI.
MacInnes, C. D. 1962. Nesting of small Canada Geese near Eskimo Point, Northwest
Territories. J. Wildl. Manage. 26: 247-256.
O'Neil, T. A. 1988. Effects of removal and replacement of brood-rearing habitats on a
Canada Goose flock. Murrelet 69: 41-45.
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