It’s a classic migration-season image: a flock of Canada geese flying across the sky, their progress marked by a chain of honks and steady wingbeats. Of birds that migrate for winter, most people ...

Passenger planes could start flying in convoy like flocks of migrating geese to slash fuel use. Virgin Atlantic is among several airlines taking part in trials that may ultimately allow jets to fly in ...

The unmistakable V-formation geese adopt in flight is more than a cool aerial trick. The entire flock benefits from upward air flowing off the lead bird’s wings, whose fellow fliers then get to save ...

Great clouds of snow geese are streaming across our winter skies, having arrived along Texas’ coastal regions and inland fallow farm fields after flying more than 1,600 miles from the Arctic. They ...

Come springtime in the Hamptons, the sight of large flocks of Canada geese, flying in V’s overhead or foraging in fields, brings mixed feelings. On the one hand: summer is around the corner! On the ...

The only snow goose I ever saw growing up was from pictures of the white birds in the Audubon Society encyclopedias my grandparents got me for my birthdays. Heck, in the 1970s around here you didn’t ...