Thousands of geese will be lifting off Gunnison Bend Reservoir later this month — and here’s how you can see it for yourself.
Take barnacle geese. They lay their eggs 120 meters up ... So when they're a few days old, still incapable of flight, they leap off the cliff. Thousands are injured or killed on impact.
A barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis ... Watching a young albatross take flight in slow-mo is like watching Michael Jordan’s epic slam dunk in Space Jam. The hang time is just glorious.
Barnacle geese are choosing new feeding sites to cope ... Animal species which are less sociable or explore less may take much longer to discover such places. The conclusions are based on analysis ...
A team of researchers examined the foraging behavior of barnacle geese in Northern Karelia, Finland. In this region, geese feeding on agricultural fields cause large economic damage to farms.
In Finland, barnacle geese are responsible for most of the agricultural damage caused by protected species, and the Finnish government pays annually up to €4 million in compensation to farmers.
Rising temperatures in the Arctic are encouraging Barnacle geese to speed ... Normally the geese hatch before the spring and can take advantage of what the scientists term "peak food", when ...