At first, in the 1990s, a few greater white-fronted geese trickled in to Southeast Arkansas each winter, but Chase Milligan didn’t think much about it. “I was a duck hunter, like everybody else around here,” the Dumas, Arkansas, native says matter-of-factly. “And ducks are what we had.”
At the time, the increase in the region’s numbers of specklebellies—the nickname for these cousins to the better-known Canada goose—happened gradually enough