It seems as if the good old goose is all but gone as the official bird of festive celebrations, at least in America. According to Herb Ramsay, president of Pietrus Foods, in Sleepy Eye, Minn., one … ...

E.B. White's children's classic Charlotte's Web comes to movie screens in December 2006, with Julia Roberts as the spider's voice. Garth Williams / Harper Collins "In his writing," Theroux says, E ...

Now is the time to take in one of California's great wildlife spectacles, the arrival of roughly 2 million ducks and 500,000 geese to the wildlife refuges of the Sacramento Valley near Willows ...

Three of the weediest, everywhere-ist animals we know (the common pigeon, the white-tailed deer and Canada geese) — they almost went too! Everything, it turns out, is fragile.

I remember very well the first time I saw a flock of white-fronted geese in Arkansas. It was back in the 1970s. I was a student at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, and just south of town ...

White geese take flight last year along the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge auto tour route. The Sutter Buttes are in the background. Refuge staff say (on Oct. 28, 2008) they don't yet have this ...