It’s time for a barnacle goose chick to leave its nest, which is atop a 400-foot cliff. The footage is gripping, and the result might surprise you. The narrator describes the hatchling’s departure ...

The breeding grounds of Arctic migratory birds such as the barnacle goose are changing rapidly due to accelerated warming in the polar regions. They won't be able to keep up with this climate change ...

Thomas Oudman receives funding from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (grant number 019.172EN.011). The climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, and so are the environments of ...

Every spring, thousands of barnacle geese make a grand migration from their temperate winter habitat in northern Europe and northwestern Russia to their summer nesting grounds in the Arctic. It's a ...

A team of researchers from the University of Turku and the Natural Resources Institute Finland examined the foraging behaviour of barnacle geese in Northern Karelia, Finland. In this region, geese ...

Goosing just got bigger in Colorado. A few weeks ago, I wrote about spending a day trying to find all six goose species known to occur in Colorado. A six-goose day ranks as a high accomplishment in ...

Each spring, barnacle geese migrate more than 1,800 miles from the Netherlands and northern Germany to their breeding grounds in parts of Russia above the Arctic Circle. The journey north usually ...

Migrating barnacle geese that lay their eggs in the Arctic zones of northern Russia are becoming confounded by earlier springs in their traditional nesting grounds, according to a study published in ...

1. We develop a simple mathematical model to represent the population dynamics of barnacle geese wintering on Islay which allows the investigation of the effects of different management strategies, in ...

Many grasses (Poaceae) have symbiotic fungal endophytes, which affect livestock by producing unpalatable or harmful secondary compounds. Less is known about the repelling effects of fungal endophytes ...

Each spring, barnacle geese migrate more than 1,800 miles from the Netherlands and northern Germany to their breeding grounds in parts of Russia above the Arctic Circle. The journey north usually ...