"You boys get your guns ready." In 2002, according to RSPB figures, there were just 300 breeding pairs of greylag geese in Orkney. Six years later that number had increased to a startling 10,000.

Various government funds have been thrown at “goose groups” established to reduce numbers after they spent years of campaigning to remove the greylag’s former protected status. But even with ...

Greylag geese, which mate in long-term monogamous relationships, have better success hatching chicks if their personalities are a good match, according to a new paper in the journal Animal Behavior.