Utah has banded more geese than any other state west of the Rockies. Here’s one way biologists there do it.
If casual visitors to the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge were paying attention this month, they might have spotted a wader-clad duo hanging off the bow of an airboat and pulling Canada geese out of the Great Salt Lake. The airboat would rip across the water, only slowing so one woman could snatch a goose as it swam through the shallows. And it was all in the name of science.
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