Years ago, my husband and I were birdwatching with friends and one of the women in our group (who shall remain nameless) kept referring to all the “Canadian” geese at the Middle Creek Refuge. We had ...

Infectious disease and wildlife experts are scratching their heads at the recent discoveries of mass Canada goose deaths in ...

Canada geese (Branta canadensis) migrating to the east coast of the United States are pictured at Berczy Park North in Markham, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 14, 2025. (Photo by Yang Shu/Xinhua) Canada geese ...

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The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature will rename Canada geese as American geese with the publication of the next edition of its widely respected list of scientific animal names. The ...

A Canada goose (Branta canadensis) strikes a characteristic pose (Photo: FortWhyte.org). The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature will rename Canada geese as American geese with the ...

If you have not seen any Canada geese yet this year, you should soon. The migration is on, and some stay in the state year-round — for example, along the Missouri River. Most everyone is familiar with ...

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States While the content of subjective (personal) experience is inaccessible to external observers, behavioral ...

Canada geese flying in their signature v-formation weren’t always such a common fall sight in Minnesota. Hunting and habitat loss decimated the birds’ population a century ago. Numbers had dwindled so ...

Although Canada geese (Branta canadensis) seem ubiquitous around here, this has not always been the case. Today, many resident, nonmigratory geese live here year-round. But the numbers of Canada geese ...

Bagging a goose seemed like wishful thinking when I started hunting with my dad in the 1960s. For one thing, they were wary prey. For another, there weren’t that many around. These days, I often come ...