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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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