GRAND FORKS – Last week the swan. This week the goose, but a goose of a different kind, the cackling goose. In the great debate over bird species, the splitters won this one. Cackling goose was ...

Birds show up in unexpected places. This week’s example happened on Sunday, Feb. 18, at the Myra Museum, of all places. And no, the bird was not stuffed. Mark Hadlich brought the bird of the week to ...

Bird watchers love to keep lists: life lists, state and county lists, year lists, big day lists. So the appearance of a new bird in the region attracts much attention. A brand new species is here now, ...

Foxes ate so many Aleutian cackling geese that by 1940, the birds were thought to be extinct. Craig Swolgaard Bob “Sea Otter” Jones, alone in a wooden dory, traveled to an unexplored island in the ...