Where identification gets tricky is in the Central Flyway, where the winter ranges of the lesser Canada goose and the Richardson’s cackling goose overlap. But that’s not our problem. Birders and goose ...

The cackling goose is Branta hutchinsii. More specifically, the goose which was not a Canada goose was a Richardson’s cackling goose, one of several recognized sub-species of Branta hutchinsii. Until ...

Cackling geese do occur in North Dakota, in quite large numbers. Semidi Island cackling geese, however, are range-restricted and population challenged.

Since 2004, Canada geese have been divided into two distinct species, a large-bodied species that breeds in the interior of North America and the smaller-bodied "cackling goose" that nests in the ...

Five species of geese regularly occur in North Dakota. Two of these present identification challenges. If you throw in the strays, the number rises to six.

Goose by goose. Most of them more than once. Doing so, I found several snow geese and many cackling geese. Though I would have been very thankful for a six-goose day, I found only three.

WATERFOWLING — Goose hunters have a lot of decisions to make, often in a split second in the dim light of early morning, with wind blowing and rain pelting their faces. Bird identification is ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is warning the public of cackling geese that have been exposed to the bird flu at Lake Tye.

Staying in my car kept the geese calm. Checking the identity of every goose yielded those three common species: Canada, cackling and greater white-fronted.

The cackling and Aleutian cackling species have shorter necks and rounder or blockier heads, and often sport white neck rings that can be thick or thin — but not always.

A brand new species is here now, ready to be added to any or all of those lists. Its name is the cackling goose.