"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.

Kleindorfer’s predecessor, a famous Austrian biologist named Konrad Lorenz, was so well versed with the local Greylag Geese, that he could name them just from looking at their faces on a plaque ...

File photo of greylag geese at Sukhna by Lalit Mohan Bansal. However, the Greylag’s presence for a transit stopover never fails to set aflutter the hearts of bird enthusiasts. Six were seen on ...