A healthy return of brant geese to northern Puget Sound will create a brief hunting season for the third year in a row. Brant hunting will be open in Skagit County only on Jan. 21, Jan. 22, Jan. 24, ...

Hunters will aim to the skies in what could be a decent local brant goose season. Hunting in Skagit County begins Saturday, and Jan. 13, 16, 19-20, 23 and 26-27 with a two-brant daily limit. The ...

Black and white was the uniform of the day at Fort Flagler State Park. Hundreds of black brant geese stretched along the shoreline looking very dapper in their tuxedo-like plumage. They are such ...

A HUNTING REVIVAL begins Saturday when a brant (geese) hunt is held for the first time in decades in Clallam County. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife said stable populations of brant that do ...

For decades, the crowds of small, dark sea geese on the tundra of southwestern Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta have been thinning, a situation opposite that of geese on the North Slope. The flat area ...

Not all birds mate for life, but for those species that do, wildlife biologists have found a clear benefit to the birds from such long-term relationships: Greater longevity and breeding success, ...

Hundreds of Atlantic brant geese began turning up dead in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge last November, and not all died quietly. Some fell from the sky in mid-flight, stricken by a ...