To be ready to migrate in the fall, geese start preparing in midsummer. Babies born in the spring are mostly grown up by then. Adult geese grow a new set of plumage after shedding their old feathers – ...

It’s a classic migration-season image: a flock of Canada geese flying across the sky, their progress marked by a chain of honks and steady wingbeats. Of birds that migrate for winter, most people ...

Snow geese fly in a V-formation primarily to conserve energy during long migrations, using the updraft from the bird ahead to ...

Few of the early signs of spring arrive with such soul-stirring suddenness as migrating Canada geese. It probably will catch you by surprise, as it does me. The first thing you notice is the sound, a ...