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 ...

You know all those Canada geese you see on the Retreat Meadows and in the Connecticut River? In the fall and the spring, the numbers can be up in the hundreds, sometimes even thousands, as the Arctic ...

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 ...

Flood watches and warnings remain in effect as heavy rain continues to pummel western Washington. by Karina Vargas, KOMO News Reporter MONROE, Wash. — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ...

Early birds can flock to the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge before dawn Saturday and Sunday for the 15th annual Aleutian Cackling Goose Fly-Off & Family Fun Weekend. Folks of all ages gather at ...

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 ...

Foxes ate so many Aleutian cackling geese that by 1940, the birds were thought to be extinct. Craig Swolgaard Bob “Sea Otter” Jones, alone in a wooden dory, traveled to an unexplored island in the ...

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 ...

, rare geese become a target of many birding chases. Most birders start each birding day with a plan, which usually includes where they can find a rare or unusual bird. In late fall and winter, that ...

I hadn’t even noticed how noiseless my twilight drive through Humboldt County had been. But upon arrival at the Richard J. Guadagno Headquarters and Visitor Center at Humboldt Bay National Wildlife ...