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 ...

Juneau has already developed more than 40% of its wetlands. In a state where habitat loss is often distant and gradual, the ...

Black Brant geese congregate to molt their flight feathers in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area of the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska. (Tyler Lewis / USGS) As the Sept. 1 opening of ...

Riley Woodford Alaska Department of Fish and Game Oct 12 ... Alaskans had the opportunity to hunt an emperor goose. About 500 waterfowl hunters applied for the permit to take a single emperor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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