Ducks and geese share webbed feet, a branch on the avian family tree, and overlapping habits and habitats. Sometimes you will have opportunities to take both ducks and geese on the same hunt, but more ...

Six species of geese have been reported in the Bismarck-Mandan area. The most common one is the Canada goose, a resident that nests in our area. Depending on which group of ornithologists one uses, ...

The ruddy-headed goose is on the brink of extinction, with just 700 birds left in southern Argentina and Chile, the result of hunting in the 20th century and habitat loss in the 21st. Every southern ...

A view from U.S. 395 of mostly dry Goose Lake, which stretches from Modoc County in far-northeastern California up into southern Oregon. (Carol M. Highsmith) (CN) — To try to save three declining fish ...

Allometric scaling law predicts that herbivores respond differently to the availability of resources, mediated by body size. However, studies of allometric responses have often focused on animals with ...

Bird watchers love to keep lists: life lists, state and county lists, year lists, big day lists. So the appearance of a new bird in the region attracts much attention. A brand new species is here now, ...

SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo now has a pair of the world's rarest geese. The Nene or Hawaiian Goose is the first of its kind to be exhibited since the zoo's 123-year-old history. The pair can be seen ...

While largely a sea of agricultural fields, Iowa has recorded an astonishing 432 species of birds. Of those species on the official Iowa list, 211 species have nested within the state. In the 1970s ...