Recent declines in the branat population has prompted a joint research effort involving the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS), the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and the WBF. The Washington Brant Foundationn (WBF)has tagged and tracked 20 birds and studied their migrational patterns as they traveled as many as 2,600 miles from the Northern Canadian tundra to the beaches of Baja, Mexico in an average travel time of 51 hours. ~ Northern Light, the community newspaper of Blain and Birch Bay, Washington

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