Honk if You Love the Canada Goose

Bernd Heinrich, professor emeritus of biology and author of the recent book, The Nesting Season, waxes poetic to The New York Times in defense of the goose after 400 Canada geese living in Prospect Park in Brooklyn were rounded up and gassed. Heinrich says the birds are playful and social, bonding closely with people who raise them and with each other to care for their young. Read the article at NYTimes.com.