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Wildlife, Animals, and Plants
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WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Branta canadensis | Canada Goose
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION :
The Canada goose is widely distributed throughout North America; it
occurs in or at least migrates through every state and province.
General distributions of each population during breeding and wintering
seasons are given below [1,14,15]:
B. c. moffitti - breeds from central Alberta and British Columbia south to
the central northwestern states; winters in the Southwest
B. c. canadensis - breeds on Baffin Island, Labrador, Newfoundland,
Anticosti Island, and the Magdalen Islands;
winters in New England and the Maritime Provinces
B. c. interior - breeds in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba; winters in the
Midwest and from Delaware to North Carolina
B. c. occidentalis - breeds on Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet;
winters from Washington to California
B. c. fulva - breeds and winters along coast of Alaska and British
Columbia
B. c. maxima - breeds and winters on refuges in the farm belt states,
typically Oklahoma and Kansas
B. c. taverneri - breeds throughout interior Alaska; winters from
Washington to California
B. c. hutchinsii - breeds on western Baffin Island and surrounding islands;
winters on the North Platte River in Nebraska and in
Oklahoma and Texas
B. c. parvipes - breeds from central Alaska across northern Canada;
winters in the same areas as B. c. hutchinsii
B. c. leucopareira - breeds on the Aleutian Islands; winters from
Washington to California
B. c. minima - breeds along coastal Alaska; winters from Washington
to California
ECOSYSTEMS :
FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES31 Shinnery
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands
STATES :
| AL |
AK |
AZ |
AR |
CA |
CO |
CT |
DE |
FL |
GA |
| HI |
ID |
IL |
IN |
IA |
KS |
KY |
LA |
ME |
MD |
| MA |
MI |
MN |
MS |
MO |
MT |
NE |
NV |
NH |
NJ |
| NM |
NY |
NC |
ND |
OH |
OK |
OR |
PA |
RI |
SC |
| SD |
TN |
TX |
UT |
VT |
VA |
WA |
WV |
WI |
WY |
| AB |
BC |
MB |
NB |
NF |
NT |
NS |
ON |
PE |
PQ |
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YT |
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BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS :
1 Northern Pacific Border
2 Cascade Mountains
3 Southern Pacific Border
4 Sierra Mountains
5 Columbia Plateau
6 Upper Basin and Range
7 Lower Basin and Range
8 Northern Rocky Mountains
9 Middle Rocky Mountains
10 Wyoming Basin
11 Southern Rocky Mountains
12 Colorado Plateau
13 Rocky Mountain Piedmont
14 Great Plains
15 Black Hills Uplift
16 Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands
KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS :
K038 Great Basin sagebrush
K047 Fescue - oatgrass
K048 California steppe
K049 Tule marshes
K050 Fescue - wheatgrass
K051 Wheatgrass - bluegrass
K056 Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
K056 Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
K063 Foothills prairie
K066 Wheatgrass - needlegrass
K067 Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
K068 Wheatgrass - grama - buffalograss
K069 Bluestem - grama prairie
K070 Sandsage - bluestem prairie
K071 Shinnery
K072 Sea oats prairie
K073 Northern cordgrass prairie
K074 Bluestem prairie
K075 Nebraska Sandhills prairie
K076 Blackland prairie
K077 Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
K078 Southern cordgrass prairie
K090 Live oak - sea oats
SAF COVER TYPES :
16 Aspen
217 Aspen
222 Black cottonwood - willow
SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES :
NO-ENTRY
PLANT COMMUNITIES :
Canada geese primarily use wetland areas dominated by emergent
vegetation such as cattail (Typha spp.), bulrush (Scirpus spp.), sedge
(Carex spp.), and reed (Phragmites spp.). They also inhabit communities
dominated by prostrate willow (Salix spp.), dwarf birch (Betula nana),
and Labrador tea (Ledum palustre) [1,19].
REFERENCES :
NO-ENTRY
Related categories for Wildlife Species: Branta canadensis
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