ALEUTIAN CANADA GOOSE 



Branta canadensis leucopareia (Brandt) 



KINGDOM Animalia 



ORDER Anseriformes 



FAMILY Anatidae 



OTHER COMMON 



NAMES Hutchins' Goose; Turner 



1886; Cackling Goose; Lesser Canada 

 Goose; Legch; Luch or lugach or Lagix; 

 land goose; Shijukara gan. 



DATE 



Entered into SWIS To be determined 



Update To be determined 



LEGAL STATUS 



Federal: Endangered: (42 FR 36427, 14 July 

 1977). Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 

 July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755; 16 U.S.C. 



703-711) as amended Dec. 3, 1969. 

 Public Law 91-135. 



States: Endangered: Alaska. 



REASONS FOR CURRENT STATUS 



The rapid population decline during the last 

 50 years and reduction of known breeding range 

 to one small island is due primarily to introduc- 

 tion of arctic or blue foxes {Alopex lagopus) on 

 the Aleutian Islands, although excessive hunting 

 along the migration route and wintering grounds 

 has probably contributed to the decline (Grinnell 

 et al. 1918, Murie 1959, Jones 1963). Blue foxes 

 have been introduced on almost every island in the 

 Aleutian chain from Yunaska westward, excluding 

 Attu which had an ancestral population of foxes 

 Qones 1963), primarily in the 1920's when fox fur 

 commanded high prices. Large fox populations 

 were produced rapidly and maintained. Buldir Is- 

 land, the most isolated and inaccessible of the 



