The results of an Orkney wide survey to establish the current population of summering / breeding Greylag Geese has been co-ordinated by staff from the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust last weekend (25th/26th August), with help from local volunteers. A staggering 21,367 birds were recorded during the survey.
In 2008, an attempt was made to estimate the increasing Greylag Goose population on Orkney for the first time since numbers had increased substantially. A minimum of 10,000 birds were recorded. So the population appears to have more than doubled in a five year period.