Make a honk for rare geese | Patrick Barkham
by Patrick Barkham from Environment | The Guardian on (#1416G)
Climate change is helping many species of wildlife, but not the Greenland white-fronted goose. If the 21 left in Wales look troubled, there's good reason
One of the joys of winter is hearing geese honking conversationally to each other as they descend to their roosting sites at twilight. I used to hear Canada geese sail overhead to a Stoke Newington reservoir behind where I lodged in my London days. In Norfolk, the great skeins of pink"footed geese that congregate on the marshes at Holkham are a wonder of the natural world.
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