Hatch date influences pre‐fledging survival of temperate‐nesting Canada geese

Among the numerous demographic parameters that influence population size, unbiased estimates of pre‐fledging survival remain difficult to obtain for precocial birds. In this study, we used capture–mark–recapture modeling to estimate pre‐fledging survival in a population of temperate‐nesting Canada geese Branta canadensis maxima that has undergone an exponential increase over the last two decades. We examined whether pre‐fledging survival was...