Next 'in-person' Talk:
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Where have you Bean Goose ?
with Billy Thomson and Angus MacIver Monday 3rd February 2025 7pm |
Taiga Bean Goose
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Our next in-person meeting of the 2024/25 season will be held in Partick Burgh Hall, 9 Burgh Hall Street, Partick, Glasgow G11 5LW at 7pm. See below for further details about the venue.
Where have you Bean Goose ? with Billy Thomson and Angus MacIver
There will be an admittance charge of £3 min. (£1 students) which covers our venue rental fee and the cost of refreshments and nibbles.
Where have you Bean Goose ? with Billy Thomson and Angus MacIver
There will be an admittance charge of £3 min. (£1 students) which covers our venue rental fee and the cost of refreshments and nibbles.
Subject - Where have you Bean Goose?
A light-hearted conversation about our wintering Taiga Bean Geese. Outlining monitoring activities over the last 25 years and explaining how technology has helped us improve our understanding of breeding areas, productivity, migration routes and staging areas etc. Bean Goose Advisory Group members visiting the better monitored staging areas in Sweden and Norway during Autumn 2024 and meeting with our Scandinavian colleagues to share knowledge etc will also be reported on.
Speakers - Angus MacIver has helped monitor the wintering Taiga Bean flock for 25 years and led the conservation effort through the Bean Goose Advisory Group for most of that time. His knowledge of flock feeding and roosting habits is unique and unsurpassed. A long-standing member of the SOC right back to the days of George Waterston. Angus set up the West Galloway SOC Branch in 1975.
Billy Thomson joined the monitoring effort 7 years ago and has been keen to introduce remote monitoring techniques to improve our understanding of the birds while minimising disturbance to the wintering flock.
A light-hearted conversation about our wintering Taiga Bean Geese. Outlining monitoring activities over the last 25 years and explaining how technology has helped us improve our understanding of breeding areas, productivity, migration routes and staging areas etc. Bean Goose Advisory Group members visiting the better monitored staging areas in Sweden and Norway during Autumn 2024 and meeting with our Scandinavian colleagues to share knowledge etc will also be reported on.
Speakers - Angus MacIver has helped monitor the wintering Taiga Bean flock for 25 years and led the conservation effort through the Bean Goose Advisory Group for most of that time. His knowledge of flock feeding and roosting habits is unique and unsurpassed. A long-standing member of the SOC right back to the days of George Waterston. Angus set up the West Galloway SOC Branch in 1975.
Billy Thomson joined the monitoring effort 7 years ago and has been keen to introduce remote monitoring techniques to improve our understanding of the birds while minimising disturbance to the wintering flock.
The Venue - Partick Burgh Hall.
This is near Partick bus, underground and train station (see link for map). Car parking should be available in the adjacent streets e.g. Burgh Hall Street, Peel Street and Fortrose Street once the parking regulation hours have passed (currently after 6pm).
To cover the hall hire, we charge an entrance fee of £3 min. There will be no additional charge for the tea, coffee, and biscuits. The fee will be reduced to £1 for students and for others at the discretion of the committee. It would be very helpful if you could bring with you the exact change. We do not have any debit card handling facility.
If you know you do not receive branch notices but would like to, you can sign up here. Click to join the SOC .
Rebecca Dickson
Clyde Branch Secretary
[email protected]
This is near Partick bus, underground and train station (see link for map). Car parking should be available in the adjacent streets e.g. Burgh Hall Street, Peel Street and Fortrose Street once the parking regulation hours have passed (currently after 6pm).
To cover the hall hire, we charge an entrance fee of £3 min. There will be no additional charge for the tea, coffee, and biscuits. The fee will be reduced to £1 for students and for others at the discretion of the committee. It would be very helpful if you could bring with you the exact change. We do not have any debit card handling facility.
If you know you do not receive branch notices but would like to, you can sign up here. Click to join the SOC .
Rebecca Dickson
Clyde Branch Secretary
[email protected]