Flying Barnacle Geese (IMAGE)

Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)

Flying Barnacle Geese

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Each spring, barnacle geese have to fly a long way to their breeding grounds. It's a couple of thousand kilometres to Arctic Russia, where they have to arrive just as the snow has melted. Are they able to predict the vastly changing climate there from their wintering grounds?

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Jasper Koster

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