GRAND FORKS – Last week the swan. This week the goose, but a goose of a different kind, the cackling goose. In the great debate over bird species, the splitters won this one. Cackling goose was ...

Birds show up in unexpected places. This week’s example happened on Sunday, Feb. 18, at the Myra Museum, of all places. And no, the bird was not stuffed. Mark Hadlich brought the bird of the week to ...

WATERFOWLING-- Goose hunters have a lot of decisions to make, often in a split second in the dim light of early morning, with wind blowing and rain pelting their ...

Time spent foraging (and in other activities), rate of pecking at food items and length of foraging and nonforaging periods were studied in cackling Canada goose (Branta canadensis minima) goslings ...

TRI-LAKES AREA — North America has many places where bird-watchers gather to see nature’s great wildlife spectacles. People from throughout the country travel to Nebraska’s Platte River Valley each ...

The Canada goose may evoke mixed emotions among many Iowans. To the golf course greenskeeper, gaggles of these geese may result in a painstaking effort to keep them from covering everything in stinky ...

The taxonomists have been at it again, but this time they’ve done something that makes intuitive sense. Every couple of years the American Ornithological Union comes out with a supplement to its ...

After decades of conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hassubmitted a proposal to open a subsistence hunt and a general hunt for the Emperor Goose in Alaska. An egg hunt for Cackling Canada ...

WE HAVE DISCUSSED the coming of rare geese to New Jersey and now, they have arrived. The discovery of a rare pink-footed goose in Wall Township, near Allaire State Park, has sent many birders ...

After all these years, turkeys and Thanksgiving just go together. However, this year I am focusing more on geese. But not for dinner. For goosing. Several times this past year I have explained my ...

WATERFOWLING — Goose hunters have a lot of decisions to make, often in a split second in the dim light of early morning, with wind blowing and rain pelting their faces. Bird identification is tough in ...

THREE RIVERS AREA — North America has many places where bird-watchers gather to see nature’s great wildlife spectacles. People from throughout the country travel to Nebraska’s Platte River Valley each ...