Barnacle geese are choosing new feeding sites to cope with climate change, according to Scottish researchers. A team from St Andrews University, along with Norwegian, Dutch and British colleagues ...

A barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) chick must must make a 120-metre jump in order to join its parents at the bottom to find its first meal (credit: BBC) At just two to three days old, tiny ...

the barnacle gosling must plummet more than 120m from its nest in the high cliffs of eastern Greenland. The mother calls to her chicks, encouraging them to leap. It's a rite of passage for these ...

A team of researchers from the University of Turku and the Natural Resources Institute Finland examined the foraging behaviour of barnacle geese in Northern Karelia, Finland. In this region ...

Take barnacle geese. They lay their eggs 120 meters up the side of the cliff, away from predators. That's the same height as a 36-story building. But there's no food for the chicks to eat up there.

In Finland, barnacle geese are responsible for most of the agricultural damage caused by protected species, and the Finnish government pays annually up to €4 million in compensation to farmers.