During one of my daughter’s soccer games last year, I noticed a nearby flock of brant geese. I learned from one of the parents at the game that John Roser has studied the geese for years. After ...

SEDRO-WOOLLEY — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has announced a three-day hunting season for brant geese in Skagit County Jan. 20, 24, and 27. A brant count above 3,000 in Skagit ...

FIR ISLAND — Maynard Axelson’s Fir Island aviary is a hub of feathered activity. Recently, the Washington Brant Foundation founder opened the aviary to research involving a species he has studied ...

Since late October, birders from across southeast Michigan have been flocking to a pier in Monroe County for one reason: to spot a bird rarely seen here. The brant is a small goose that migrates south ...

OCEANVILLE, N.J. -- Hundreds of Atlantic brant geese began turning up dead in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge last November, and not all died quietly. Some fell from the sky in ...

OLYMPIA — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife on Tuesday announced continuing hunts in Clallam, Pacific and Whatcom counties and a two-day hunting season for brant geese in Skagit County.

The hunting season for brant geese in Skagit County will once again be abbreviated. The state Department of Fish & Wildlife has announced that Skagit County hunters will have three days — Jan. 16, 20 ...

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Every year around November, flocks of one of North America’s tiniest geese leave Alaska’s Izembek Lagoon, launching an epic migration up to 3,000 miles long. In flights that can last 60 hours, Pacific ...

Hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of Canada geese are seen during the cold season in the Brattleboro Retreat waters and along the length of the Connecticut River. Wherever there is open water and ...