providing sufficient spatial refuge for geese may help buffer the effects of hunting. "Canada geese—many of which are non-migratory in Pennsylvania—account for about half of the total harvest ...

To monitor the behavior of geese, the researchers trapped a total of 134 females on 9,661-acre Pymatuning and 6,207-acre Middle Creek WMAs and fitted them with GPS collars to track the birds ...

The study found that most Canada geese did not abandon the WMAs during the hunting season and were least 165 times more likely to choose to be on the WMAs than off the WMAs, regardless of goose ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Geese appear to understand when and where hunting takes place but are willing to risk the danger to stay close to resources and their primary habitats, according to a new study ...

Erica Miller, team leader for PennVet’s Wildlife Futures Program, assists. (Photo courtesy Penn State) Geese appear to understand when and where hunting takes place but are willing to risk the danger ...

Before European colonization, Canada geese nested in southwest Ontario and the southern prairies, but in the early 1900s unregulated hunting drove the geese to the brink of extinction. Wildlife ...

The move would also establish a spring hunting season for Canada geese with a daily bag limit of eight. Sharp, the wildlife biologist in Ontario, said the province isn't considering such drastic ...

The Canada goose is a large bird up to 2 ft long with a wingspread of more than 4 feet ... In these locations, food is plentiful and they are not subject to hunting pressures or natural predators. As ...

In findings recently published in Landscape Ecology, the researchers reported that when managing a mixed landscape wildlife management area (WMA) comprising cropland, forest, lake and wetlands for ...