FIDO may not be able to catch a Frisbee or fetch slippers, but it may turn out to be the city of Cedar Rapids' best friend when it comes to shooing away geese. FIDO, short for Fowl Intercept & ...

Ducks will gobble up emerging weeds, weed seeds, bugs, slugs and snails in the garden. Whether you raise them for fun or frugality, ducks and geese are great additions to a homestead. They forage for ...

The following is an excerpt from Natural Living: The 21st-Century Guide to a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle by Liz Wright (GAIA/Octopus, 2010). From teaching you how to preserve your garden harvests to how ...

Snow geese are one of the most abundant waterfowl species, and they are increasing rapidly. By most counts the population is somewhere between five and six million, although recent banding studies and ...

Whether you’re looking for a new poultry adventure or just starting a flock, baby ducks and goslings can be a welcome addition to your backyard. Waterfowl such as ducks and geese can be raised ...

Snow geese are familiar birds in Pennsylvania, where they pass during their spring and fall migrations to and from the arctic breeding grounds. Their stop-overs at spots like Middle Creek Wildlife ...

M arcus and I had already organised a dawn and dusk Goose Day. We were booked in at Martin Mere to watch the Pink Footed ...

Snow geese are abundant, well known and hard to keep track of. Probably no species has adapted so quickly to changing conditions and expanded so rapidly -- and yet become so uniquely threatened. It's ...

GREENWICH — Bird watchers flocked to Greenwich this week to get a glimpse of a taiga bean goose, a waterfowl indigenous to Europe and Asia that experts say is rarely seen in the Northeast U.S.