Some pink-footed geese have begun migrating to the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya in the summer to breed, nearly 1000 kilometres away from their usual breeding site on the island of Svalbard.

Minnesota's breeding duck and goose numbers were up significantly from last year, and the state had a record number of wetlands, according to Department of Natural Resources spring waterfowl surveys.

As the planet warms, animals that breed in the Arctic are at particular risk. But a new study offers some encouraging news: in an apparent reaction to pressures along their former migratory route, a ...

Move over, chickens—there’s a new candidate for oldest domesticated poultry, and it says, “honk!” Humans have long raised birds in order to consume their meat and eggs, and use their feathers.

Against a backdrop of above-average precipitation and wetland conditions, the 2019 Wisconsin breeding waterfowl survey found a slight drop in duck numbers and an increase in Canada geese, according to ...

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 ...

1. Herbivorous birds are hypothesized to migrate in spring along a seasonal gradient of plant profitability towards their breeding grounds (green wave hypothesis). For Arctic breeding species in ...

The connectedness in Arctic regions between migratory waterbird populations originating from different continents and the potential for virus exchange at their shared Arctic breeding ground point to ...