Darion’s Reviews > A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There > Status Update

In other words, goose flocks are families, or aggregations of families, and lone geese in spring are probably just what our fond imaginings had first suggested. They are bereaved survivors of the winter's shooting, searching in vain for their kin. Now I am free to grieve with and for the lone honkers. It is not often that cold-potato mathematics thus confirms the sentimental promptings of the bird-lover!
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