Bringing in huge, hostile swans to chase away smaller, gentler geese does not have the ring of brilliance to it. It sounds a little like using poison toads to counter a plague of frogs, bees to drive ...

Future “Nature Matters” columns will focus on the smallest and largest waterfowl species — ducks and swans; this column is devoted to the middle-sized birds — geese.

It’s little wonder that the continent’s snow geese are overpopulated. As I’ve learned in the recent years that the all-white geese have been invading parts of southeastern Pennsylvania in late winter, ...

Not everyone would agree that the honking and other sounds coming from thousands of Canada geese, snow geese and swans is “music to their ears.” Then again, not everyone agrees that opera is all that ...