Geese love the Susquehanna Valley and some stay year-round. Others migrate, which causes some people to wonder if their flying habits can tell us how long winter will last.In this Wild Moments segment ...
Dear Readers: I don’t have a fresh column this week, but after seeing a northbound formation of geese fly over this weekend, I thought that this column from January 2014 would be an appropriate ...
DELEVAN, N.Y. — Birds are amazing. Intelligent, beautiful and superbly adaptive. They are related to dinosaurs and are one of the oldest species on earth. They are part of our art and our folklore.
Bar-headed geese migrate above 26,000 feet. A better understanding of their efficient use of oxygen could have implications for human medical treatment. By Devi Lockwood Each year, bar-headed geese ...
The unmistakable V-formation geese adopt in flight is more than a cool aerial trick. The entire flock benefits from upward air flowing off the lead bird’s wings, whose fellow fliers then get to save ...
Dear Readers: I’ve seen a cornucopia of birds over the past week — mallards, Canada geese, bald eagles, even a few lingering American white pelicans — reminding me of this column which was originally ...