Brent geese show parents know best Date: November 16, 2010 Source: University of Exeter Summary: Research from a six year study on migrating geese has discovered an interesting outcome -- they ...

Devon Manik, an Inuit hunter, made a meal of the goose after shooting it dead, unaware that students in Dungarvan, Ireland had tagged about 100 brent geese for a school project to monitor the ...

Devon Manik, an Inuit hunter, made a meal of the goose after shooting it dead, unaware that students in Dungarvan, Ireland had tagged about 100 brent geese for a school project to monitor the ...

Mike said: “What I like about the old Brent goose is its loyalty to Jersey. The first record of them in a Jersey history book was way back in 1694.” “We have so many, around a thousand each ...

Note: Many thanks to Lars Dietz (see comments) who has done so much to correct some errors of attribution I made in this piece. He truly went above and beyond to dig up the truth behind John Hill ...

Dr. Tancred Robinson refuted Moray’s statements, clearly stating that the Brent-Goose hatched from eggs just like any other species. The fact that Dutch sailors had reported seeing innumerable ...

Each spring about 200,000 Brent Geese depart from England and France to the Siberian tundra to breed. En route they descend on salt marshes and polders in the Wadden Sea area to eat young grass.

FROM THE ARCHIVES - January 14th, 1984: Brent geese, it appears, were abandoning Ireland in numbers in the 1980s and some intrepid… ...

Brent Geese have been flocking to a specially designated bird refuge on Southsea Common which has been set aside for them this winter. Up to 195 migratory Brent Geese have been regularly spotted ...

It seems that in light-bellied Brent geese, parents know what's best." Studying the location choices of migratory birds is very difficult due to the large distances they travel.

The findings of the study, published online today [November 17] in the journal Molecular Ecology, suggest young light-bellied Brent geese learn their migratory destinations from parents.