Every year the Netherlands is the favourite stopover of millions of migrating birds, including 1.5 million geese. It’s all about location, location, location. The Netherlands has the world’s best conditions for these birds: proximity to masses of water (geese sleep on the water surface at night to be safe from water-shy predators like foxes) and the vast, endless, lush and nutritious Dutch grasslands. We follow the movements of geese in the northeastern provinces.
Producer: Anne Blair Gould
Broadcast: March 17, 2004