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 ...

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 ...

Here are this week’s bird sightings from the Western Voice of Audubon: A brant and 38 black scoters were at Ludlow Reservoir. A Lapland longspur was in Amherst. Seven brant, 59 long-tailed ducks, 91 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Tom Reed, a local bird expert, tells the tale of Cape May County's Christmas goose. May you spot one this holiday.

A rare visitor from the Arctic and Atlantic Coast has graced our containment vessel and harbor. A brant, which is a small goose, has been seen daily since the first of November. Birders from Wisconsin ...