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🗓️ 22 January 2018
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0:38.8 | Over the last few decades, Canada geese have been wintering further and further north, |
0:44.1 | which was interesting because the winters have gotten a little more mild over the last few years, |
0:49.9 | but still, it's pretty cold out there and there's lots of snow. |
0:52.6 | University of Illinois ornithologist Mike Ward. |
0:56.0 | So you would wonder why these geese are deciding to spend the winter in Chicago when they could |
1:00.5 | have the opportunity to fly down to Arkansas, Louisiana, somewhere warmer. |
1:05.0 | Geese who continue south often land in agricultural fields and other wide open areas, which makes |
1:10.6 | them visible to hunters in those |
1:12.0 | states who can bang the birds until the end of January. |
1:15.1 | There's definitely a lot of geese that are seeing the winters in Chicago, and not just Chicago, |
1:20.0 | lots of urban areas throughout the Midwest. |
1:23.1 | And one reason they're doing that is they're trying to avoid hunters, it looks like. |
1:27.6 | Of course, staying in cities is no easy life either. |
1:31.0 | It probably would be easier to find food if they would fly somewhere else |
1:34.1 | to go to cornfield or somewhere else. |
1:36.2 | But they're hanging out in the city and they're acting very strangely. |
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