The snow goose hegira takes them from the high arctic tundra flats to the rice fields of the lower Mississippi and the bayous of the Gulf. A funny thing happened on the way to the present.

Greater white-fronted geese migrate from breeding grounds on the Arctic Tundra, which extends from near Hudson Bay to Siberia ...

Not all that long ago, people thought of Canada geese as symbols of wildness and ... suburban lawns much more pleasant than subarctic tundra. Tastier, too. From deafening noisemakers to border ...

Snow Geese, Canadian Geese, Tundra Swans, Sandhill Cranes and many other migratory birds pass through every March and April, heading back to their summer breeding grounds far north of here.