Supplementary Material Table S1. Summary of numbers of webtagged brent goslings used to estimate pre-fledging survival. Webtags were applied to goslings that we could assign to parents for which the use of a specific brood rearing area was known during the prior five years No. Applied based on brood rearing area used by parents 1987 Total Bend Hock applied Captured Camp Tutakoke Kashtut Slough Slough Emperor Punoarat at Ringing 2 29 43 0 23 0 0 97 23 All Subsequent encounters 10 1988 13 31 84 15 25 0 0 168 33 4 1989 114 61 244 149 93 12 59 732 133 40 1990 115 45 423 207 149 14 177 1130 191 42 1991 154 71 362 162 133 25 116 1023 185 52 1992 196 53 380 114 112 34 190 1079 155 23 1993 180 50 321 116 149 51 251 1118 150 24 1994 115 73 310 172 222 54 183 1129 149 28 1995 166 60 452 189 204 82 176 1329 228 44 1996 117 40 388 106 287 67 131 1136 270 54 1997 117 153 44 154 131 171 21 62 736 113 14 Table S1 cont. 1998 186 68 441 194 228 45 9 1171 187 24 1999 180 34 364 270 259 27 16 1150 336 22 2000 133 43 286 277 262 22 14 1037 107 5 2001 4 3 8 6 17 3 0 41 0 0 2002 133 33 160 222 286 15 58 907 108 6 2003 32 9 45 58 56 7 45 252 8 1 2004 55 28 88 101 202 30 137 641 50 10 2005 115 46 91 100 147 13 193 705 235 20 TOTAL 2163 821 4644 2589 3025 522 1817 15581 2661 423 Table S2. Summary of ringings, recaptures, resightings, and hunter killed recoveries of black brent captured at Tutakoke River, Alaska 1986-2007. Recaptures, winter resights, and shot columns indicate pooled numbers across ages and gender. Year 1986 Bend Slough F M 0 0 Camp F M 14 9 Emperor F M 0 0 Number Ringed Goslings Hock Slough Kashtut F M F M 43 43 46 37 Number Reencountered 1987 104 86 58 53 0 0 86 81 249 263 0 0 94 86 0 0 393 376 45 0 63 1988 2 0 160 148 62 47 93 111 60 62 69 68 51 62 95 45 445 457 26 1499 48 1989 222 229 30 19 8 3 9 7 346 366 96 1223 0 0 18 6 644 679 356 3210 65 1990 106 83 185 188 30 25 135 133 223 224 0 0 47 46 39 14 515 570 493 3364 56 1991 30 35 90 109 94 93 120 139 257 227 140 125 23 26 26 19 477 472 583 1926 57 1992 14 11 71 86 75 72 227 225 65 68 161 124 57 62 52 24 404 423 779 984 86 1993 109 95 80 67 54 58 80 87 422 416 0 0 56 47 35 7 473 577 568 435 74 1994 46 51 113 99 51 62 303 325 22 19 0 0 14 11 6 9 284 299 375 1849 119 1995 154 148 94 110 0 0 156 151 217 164 0 0 32 48 12 7 306 403 656 2577 124 1996 23 24 185 177 4 8 461 342 137 112 0 0 102 99 32 16 280 365 1032 2216 105 1997 42 35 100 128 33 33 87 64 39 28 11 10 1 0 30 14 178 221 307 2370 153 1998 92 104 41 36 12 15 165 138 258 222 0 0 36 41 4 1 265 372 488 1960 142 1999 291 216 67 60 51 46 246 225 115 97 0 0 31 21 21 3 306 431 651 1030 132 2000 116 85 41 53 40 41 230 226 102 121 0 0 17 18 24 2 280 417 463 831 71 2001 0 0 0 0 13 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 9 4 360 59 2002 26 26 26 41 44 55 109 133 0 0 28 27 1 1 0 0 389 513 480 402 58 Punoarat F M 0 0 Tutakoke F M 41 53 Flighted Juveniles Adults F M F M 0 0 107 100 Recaps 0 Winter Resights 0 Shot 3 Table 2 cont. 2003 0 0 2 5 0 0 4 1 4 7 0 0 7 7 1 0 11 15 33 312 51 2004 15 11 20 21 0 0 54 44 83 63 76 59 16 18 0 0 249 272 196 82 93 2005 19 23 156 144 0 0 85 96 142 130 0 0 68 58 19 8 242 348 436 0 50 2006 182 183 68 71 20 28 63 63 281 272 0 0 55 56 41 16 302 413 555 0 76 2007 101 112 49 47 7 8 39 24 35 32 0 0 31 28 46 24 119 160 326 0 32 TOTAL 1694 1557 1650 1671 598 600 2795 2658 3105 2930 581 536 780 788 501 215 6676 7892 8852 25407 1717