A barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) chick must must make a 120-metre jump in order to join its parents at the bottom to find its first meal (credit: BBC) At just two to three days old, tiny ...

It must reach the grassy feeding grounds below, but in order to get there, the barnacle gosling must plummet more than 120m from its nest in the high cliffs of eastern Greenland. The mother calls ...

Baby marine iguanas also have it rough ... and some babies must go to extremes to survive. Take barnacle geese. They lay their eggs 120 meters up the side of the cliff, away from predators.

Barnacle geese are choosing new feeding sites to cope with climate change, according to Scottish researchers. A team from St Andrews University, along with Norwegian, Dutch and British colleagues ...

Thousands of barnacle geese were lost at the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust (WWT) Caerlaverock site on the Solway Firth. They have begun to return this year as they head south from Svalbard ...