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Delta Waterfowl and SCI Foundation have partnered to benefit conservation efforts. Delta's University Hunting Program aims to reach 500 colleges and universities, providing hunter safety training, shooting skills, mentored hunts, and wild game preparation. The program is working to recruit, retain, and reactivate hunters, with the goal of reaching nearly all 500 North American colleges and universities with wildlife sciences programs. SCI Foundation has become a Champion of Delta and made a $50,000 donation to support the program. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the animal exhibit of taxidermist Dale Manning at his house. It mentions that inside the front room there's a zoo of animals frozen in action including waterfowl that are roosting. a flock of upland birds and a fox curls up, eyes half closed, nose tilted up as if he's sniffing the air.

The article discusses that Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Wildlife Officer Chase Taylor has received the honor of being named Mississippi Flyway Waterfowl Enforcement Officer of the Year.

The article features attorney Jessica Zafonte who share her passion every Easter Sunday in rescuing water fowl at Willowbrook Park in Staten Island, New York City.

The spot was in the heart of an urban bedlam, surrounded by the hurtling traffic of the Triborough Bridge, the smokestacks of Con Edison, the grim warrens of Rikers Island, […]

The article reports on the criticism of some Jews to the reminders of the nonprofit organization Prospect Park Alliance in not throwing bread into the Prospect Park Lake in New York City. It mentions the confusion and outrage from some Jewish groups and notes that they see the warning as disrespect to the entire Jewish community. It states that the park has released the warning to protect the health of the geese and other waterfowl.

The article offers information on efforts of protecting wetlands and waterfowls of Humboldt in Saskatchewan by Ducks Ultd. under the Natural Areas Conservation Program of Canada.

The article reports on the reauthorization by the U.S. Congress of the U.S. federal farm bill from the U.S. House Agriculture Committee, which will bring threats to the birds inhabiting the wetlands and grasslands. It states that the U.S. Congress would eliminate the previous farm legislation that requires farmers to conserve the lands and the wetlands in order to be qualified on the farm program payments. Furthermore, the U.S. House and U.S. Senate will provide federal assistance for farmers.

Prospect Park, which has been on the front lines of the debate about how to control New York City's Canada goose population, has a new bird battle brewing. This time, between bird lovers and people who like to fish. Animal activists in the Brooklyn park say they have repeatedly rescued waterfowl that have either become tangled in discarded fishing line or been snagged by hooks near the park lake. In July, a baby swan's right leg was pierced by a barbed fishing hook; in early September, a female mallard struggled to free herself from a six-pronged lure attached to her bill and foot; and last month, a double-crested cormorant hobbled on a rock, a hook embedded in its leg and fishing line wrapped around its foot. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that the Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows that the 2010 preliminary estimate of the total duck population is at 40.9 million birds in Mississippi.

When 400 Canada geese that lived in Prospect Park in Brooklyn were rounded up and gassed last week, there was a predictable uproar. The geese were compared to rats and cockroaches. The humans who wanted them killed were called bloodthirsty and callous. Certainly the move, by the United States Department of Agriculture, raised a lot of questions about geese and humans, one of the less polite being, ''What good are geese, anyway?'' ''What good are people?'' might be the obvious retort, but the question can't be so easily dismissed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The other morning, I watched a starling make a long curving descent over a field that was just coming up green. There was a breeze from the southwest, and as the starling turned into it the bird suddenly appeared to be floating. I felt like I was finally seeing the starling's true shape, wings extended and still -- not as I usually see it, wings folded and quarreling over the bird-feeder. To see a bird in a soaring descent like that always sets me wondering. What does it feel like to have wings and to feel the air beneath you as substantial as the earth? The same thought occurs when a pair of Canada geese pass overhead. The word ''flap'' is of no more use in describing the flight of geese than it is in describing the swimming of penguins. Goose wings quiver in flight, deflecting only slightly, and if you watch closely, you can see the goose's body moving up and down against the stiffness of the wings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT will be either one of the most challenging fixer-uppers in the history of modern architecture or one of the most significant tear-downs. In any case, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J., is for sale. A decade ago, as many as 6,500 people worked in the low-slung complex, whose pioneering mirrored-glass facade reflects a gleaming three-legged water tower that looks like a giant Bell Laboratories transistor and pond-speckled landscapes where waterfowl outnumber humans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article provides information on the goose population that has been rising day by day. Their population increase has caused a threat to soccer fields, golf courses and other suburban ball fields and parks as they dirty the places with their poop. Kathy Falciano, a naturalist, drives the Geese Peace Truck to shoo the geese off fields. History says that the geese were brought by hunters as decoys to lure migratory geese a century ago who stayed there and increased population.

Explains that farming technique in southern China for raising ducks, geese and chickens can serve as breeding ground for avian flu.

Reports on the frustration of residents of South Plainfield, New Jersey with the growing population of Canada geese. Complaints about geese droppings throughout the town which make it difficult for children to play outside; Problems caused by a growing geese population throughout the state, including water contamination and damage to crops in farm fields; Protection of the geese by federal environmental laws; Proposals to make it easier to dispose of the geese.

Focuses on the concerns of conservationists over the increase in the snow goose population in North America. Fears that the geese will destroy delicate tundra; The success of the geese in adapting to the destruction of their southern winter home; Estimated number of geese spending the winter in the central United States; Comments of biologist Bruce Batt and Dr. Robert Rockwell; Map of nesting grounds of the snow goose.

Reports the ban on feeding of waterfowls at Parsipanny-Troy Hills in New Jersey.

Reports on a large migration of ducks in the month of November 1995 in United States. Estimated number that migrated; Information on restoration of waterfowl habit; Statistics on legislation proposed by Republicans in Congress on restoration. INSET: A major duck comeback continues..