Smart birds: Canada geese give hunters the slip by hiding out in Chicago

It’s open season for Canada geese in Illinois from mid-October to mid-January. Unfortunately for hunters, Canada geese are finding a new way to stay out of the line of fire. Rather than being ‘sitting ducks’ in a rural pond, they’re setting up residence in the city. Ornithologists conducted a recent study to try to find out why there were so many Canada geese in Chicago in the winter.

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