Relatively few snow geese breed in Alaska. There are decent breeding colonies near Utqiavik and east of Kaktovik, but most breed on the islands of northern Canada. Wrangel Island, off the Siberian ...

I asked if I could watch. In 2017, Alaska waterfowl hunters had the opportunity to hunt emperor geese for the first time in more than 30 years. The species had been protected from sport hunting ...

Learn more about the earliest evidence of birds breeding and nesting in the Arctic, a behavior that millions of birds ...

Tule geese are a subspecies of white-fronted geese. In Alaska, they spend most of the year near the northern part of Cook Inlet. (USGS Western Ecological Research Center) Tule geese migrate from ...

It's the smallest federal wildlife refuge in Alaska but one of the most important. It's home to hundreds of thousands of birds: Pacific black brant, emperor geese, pintails and eiders. This time ...

A US Geological Survey (USGS) study found that up to 30 percent of the geese now forgo warmer regions of the Pacific coast to spend winters in snowy, icy Alaska, trading a long migration for an ...

An F-16's engine was damaged after hitting a flock of ducks at a base in Alaska, but landed safely after some 'quack' thinking by the pilot.

The organization is studying several species like the geese that are found in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Arctic Management Bird Initiative Chairman Evgeny Syroechkovskiy says geese that ...

Sport hunting for emperor geese, which live in the rocky beaches and brackish waters of coastal Alaska and Russia, is managed under a federal regulatory framework based off an annual breeding ...

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report estimated 34 million ducks this spring in North America, 5% higher than last year.