All last week, as the weather warmed, squadrons of Canadian geese formed up on a sheltered arm of Long Island Sound near Greenwich, Conn., for their annual flight to the north. More than a hundred of the big grey honkers had wintered in the cove, which has been set aside as a game refuge, but each day a V of 30 or 40 birds took off, circled, and disappeared. Early one afternoon late in the week, only one formation was left. As Captain Amos L. Horst, secretary of the Wildlife Restoration Foundation, watched,...
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