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.

A barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) chick must must make a 120-metre jump in order to join its parents at the bottom to find its first meal (credit: BBC) At just two to three days old, tiny ...

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 ...