Table 39 
FOODS OF CANADA GEESE FROM THE UPPER CHESAPEAKE REGION* 


Fresh Estuarine Bays Fresh and Brackish 
With Large Adjacent Bay Marshes 
Agricultural Fields 
5 Birds? 10 Birds? 

Rootstalks and Stems of 
Emergent Marsh Plants 70%( 3h~9h) 
Three-square(including 
Scirpus americanus and 
S. olneyi) 60%( 26-88 ) 
Saltgrass 20%( 2-56) 
Saltmarsh Cordgrass 1o%( +-415) 
Leaves, Stems and Rootstalks 
of Submerged Aquatic Plants 20%( +-72 30%( 6~66 
Widgeongrass 30%( 6-66) 
Wildcelery .20%( +-72) 
Claspingleaf Pondweed 20%( +-72) 
Grain 100%(47-100) 10%(_ +5) 
Corn 100%(47~100) 10%( +-h5) 
Wheat 10%( +-h5) 
Small Seeds 30%(_ 6-66) 
Common Three-square 20%( 2-56) 
Twigrush 10%( +-445) 
Blackgum 10%( +-h5) 
1 Percentage occurrence of foods that made up 5% or more of the volume in in-. 
dividual birds. Figures in parentheses show 95% confidence limits. 
2 Sassafras River: 4 on Jan. 26, 1950, 1 on Sept. 26, 1957. 
3 Dorchester County, Nov. 8-Dec. 31, 1942-57. 
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