Avian influenza, which primarily affects poultry, has now adapted to wild birds, accompanying them in their journeys across ...

The average amount of geese on a peak migration day is around 50,000 birds ... While we were in Choteau, we were able to attend the Wild Wings Festival, an event put on to celebrate the peak ...

It’s been a wild week at Middle Creek Wildlife Management ... [Here's how to watch the snow goose migration at Middle Creek.] The nature center’s website on Monday stated that while the ...

lightweight transmitters were attached to wild adult barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) to determine physiological changes during fall migration. Interestingly, the geese preened the satellite ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The migration of snow geese and swans through the Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area near Choteau has likely peaked for spring 2025, bird counters note. Last week ...

The Wisconsin DNR says there’s been positive tests of the HPAI virus in dead flocks of mergansers, swans, and geese. These have mostly been in the southern portion of the state and along the shores of ...

Every spring tens of thousands to more than 100,000 geese and swans per day migrate through Freezout Lake. The migration usually peaks the last week of March, and bird counters noted earlier this ...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), subtype H5N1, has already impacted both wild ... ducks and geese, spread bird flu by carrying the virus over long distances along their migration ...

(Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) The town of Choteau hosts a Wild Wings festival every year during the peak snow geese migration at Freezout Lake. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Tundra swans glide ...