Geese

Appeals court upholds limit on California’s foie gras ban

May 7, 2022 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Californians can buy foie gras produced out of state despite California's ban on the delicacy, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2020 lower court ruling that said Californians can order foie gras from out-of-state producers and have it sent by a third-party delivery service.

DNR confirms avian flu in wild birds in 3 Michigan counties

March 25, 2022 GMT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Avian influenza has been confirmed in wild birds found in three southeastern Michigan counties, the state Department of Natural Resources says.

The DNR announced Thursday that highly pathogenic avian influenza had been detected in free-ranging Canada geese and tundra swans from St.

Officials investigate after 300 dead snow geese left on road

March 12, 2022 GMT

OMAHA, Neb (AP) — Nebraska Game and Parks officials are investigating after about 300 dead snow geese were found recently on a road west of Falls City in Richardson County.

Thousands of the birds are migrating through Nebraska and there is no hunting limits during conservation season.

Geese, pelicans found dead along river at Davenport

February 14, 2022 GMT

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Large numbers of geese and pelicans have been found dead along the Mississippi River in eastern Iowa, and wildlife biologists aren’t sure what’s killing them.

Vermont’s snow goose hunting season starts March 11

February 6, 2022 GMT

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s spring snow goose hunting season starts next month.

The season runs from March 11 through April 23 statewide.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has allowed the reduction of the population of migrating greater and lesser snow geese as well as Ross’ geese each year since 2009 by issuing a conservation order, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department said.

Duck poaching investigation leads to charges against 5

December 20, 2021 GMT

JAMESTOWN, R.I. (AP) — Five people are facing criminal and civil charges in connection with alleged illegal waterfowl hunting in Rhode Island, according to state environmental officials.

The Department of Environmental Management's Division of Law Enforcement also seized five guns and several ducks and geese that were then donated to a Providence social services agency, officials said in a Facebook post on Sunday.

Sonic blasts used to scare geese away in Sioux Falls

December 15, 2021 GMT

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sioux Falls will use pyrotechnics and sound cannons to scare Canada geese that are migrating into the city as temperatures drop and ponds freeze in rural areas.

City officials say the geese are creating a safety hazard for airplanes near the Sioux Falls Regional Airport.

Homeowners group in hot water after drugged geese drown

December 10, 2021 GMT

MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — Ten geese drowned in a South Florida lake after a homeowners association's attempt to trap, sedate and euthanize them went horribly awry, resulting in it facing a likely fine.

NRG: 90 geese dead after fuel spill at Millsboro plant

September 15, 2021 GMT

MILLSBORO, Del. (AP) — About 90 Canada geese have died after last week's 30,000-gallon diesel fuel spill at NRG Energy’s power plant on the Indian River near Millsboro, the company said.

Ex-wildlife chief: Trump rule could kill billions of birds

By AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWNMarch 31, 2020 GMT

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — At a former open pit copper mine filled with billions of gallons of toxic water, sirens and loud pops from propane cannons echo off the granite walls to scare away birds so they don’t land...

Denver geese culled for meat for hungry families

By SAM BRASCHJuly 3, 2019 GMT

DENVER (AP) — An ongoing effort to cull geese from Denver parks — and donate the meat to needy families — continued in the predawn hours of Monday morning.

Police: ‘Beware of goose!’ after campus parking lot attack

April 3, 2019 GMT

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Police at Eastern Michigan University have issued a warning: "Beware of goose!"

The department says potentially aggressive geese have been spotted on campus and issued the warning when posting a video on Instagram showing one goose attacking and chasing a person in a school parking lot.

Roll out the barrels: Christo artwork floats on London lake

By JILL LAWLESSJune 18, 2018 GMT

LONDON (AP) — The ducks, geese and hardy cold-water swimmers in London's Hyde Park have a new neighbor: a monumental floating structure made from 7,506 stacked barrels colored bright red, mauve and blue...

Spring can be spelled with a V – look for the Canada geese

By Jim GilbertMarch 9, 2018 GMT

Few of nature’s early spring events are more thrilling to behold than a V formation of Canada geese, flying north at speeds of up to 45 miles per hour and in honking communication with each other. The geese are returning from states to the south.

Billionaire takes a property tax stand over pooping geese

By MARY ESCHFebruary 4, 2018 GMT

Billionaire Tom Golisano says he tried stringing up fishing line, spraying smelly repellent and even posting a wolf decoy, but nothing could rid his lakeside vacation home of the Canada geese that turned his lawn into a minefield of poop...

Sadle Cattle Co. receives conservation award

By Aly Rinehart aly.rinehart@nptelegraph.comDecember 20, 2017 GMT

Sadle Cattle Co. is the 2017 recipient of the Keith-Arthur Counties Conservation Award.

For 37 years, the Twin Platte Natural Resources District has presented the award to landowners who show passion and dedication to preserving, protecting and improving the land, according to a press release.

Expectant parents, Canada geese settle in outside hospital

April 6, 2017 GMT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A pair of well-known Canada geese has again built a nest near an Omaha hospital, but this time chose an especially busy locale: a flower pot near the emergency room doors...

Reward offered in possible shooting death of tame geese in Bucks Co.

February 10, 2017 GMT

By Staff

The Bucks County SPCA is offering a $500 in connection with the death of four Chinese Geese in Solebury Township.

The incident occurred early Thursday morning while the geese, and another that was injured, were in a retention pond by Aquetong Road and Woods End Drive.

Story of Butte snow geese die-off going worldwide

Susan Dunlap susan.dunlap@mtstandard.comDecember 9, 2016 GMT

BUTTE — The biggest die-off of migrating snow geese in the history of the toxic Berkeley Pit is gaining worldwide attention with the story trending at the top of Facebook as of Wednesday morning.

The social media site showed 3,000 people were “talking about this” issue, according to Facebook on Wednesday.

The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1fZevy7 ) reports this year's gathering got off to a slow start because of frozen wetlands at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, 90 miles north of Kansas City.