Satellite tracking from Polar Ural in European Russia and southwards in 2009  

Introduction
The Fennoscandian Lesser White-fronted Goose Conservation Project and the Goose, Swan and Duck Study Group of Northern Eurasia (GSDSG) have co-operated on satellite tracking of Lesser White-fronted Geese for several years. In the Polar Ural mountains, the first birds where tagged in 2004. A "day to day" description of the tracking can be found at From Polar Ural in Russia to Mesopotamia in Iraq 2004-2005» and From Polar Ural in European Russia 2006»  
A thorough description of the Polar Ural area, European Russia, can be found in "Morozov 2000. Surveys for LWfG in the Bolshezemelskaya Tundra, European Russia, in 1999" PDF - 680KB».
In 2009 one bird was tagged by Vladimir V. Morozov in August. The bird got satellite transmitters with IDs 3501.

Results
The bird left the moulting area and was located in the lower Ob river 1 September. It stayed here until 21 when it continued migrating south. It was shortly located in north Kazakhstan on 28 September, but was on 18 October located in an hitherto unknown staging lake between the more well-known lakes Mamyrkol and Batpakol in the Kustanay area in Kazakhstan. As of 20 November it was still in this area. The transmitter is still conveying data, but we suspect that it is lying on the ground, with the bird either dead or far gone. We will update as soon as we get more information from the satellite transmitter.

A map of the route can be viewed here: migration of 3501»

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