Nation IN BRIEF : ALASKA : 125,000 Geese Set to Migrate En Masse
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A flock of more than 125,000 geese is fattening up in a southwest Alaska lagoon in preparation for what federal biologists call one of the most spectacular and least observed bird migrations, expected to begin this weekend. Each year, the world’s entire population of Pacific black brant migrates south together from Alaska to Baja California in 2 1/2 days, nonstop. The geese cover 3,400 miles at an average speed of 62 m.p.h. The last time the giant migration was sighted en route was in 1873.
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