cambridge

But who speaks for the geese?

Advocates seek voice in BU bridge project

The Boston University Bridge (background), adjacent to an area that is frequented by a variety of geese, is slated for a three-year reconstruction project. (Globe Staff Photo / Mark Wilson)

By Jennifer Schwartz

Globe Correspondent / September 14, 2008

E-mail|
Reprints|

Text size – +

Cambridge's white geese have it rough these days. The flock of barn birds that reside on a small swath of land under the Boston University Bridge has survived more than two decades on the grassy banks of the Charles River, despite brutal mutilation by at-large human attackers in 2001, being ousted from their feeding grounds on Magazine Beach in 2004, ... (Full article: 920 words)