When you do pick up a gosling or other baby bird, or find an injured bird of any kind, call the Bird Treatment and Learning Center at 562-4852, or visit their web site. They will tell you what to do with the bird if it is a weekend, and where to bring it during the week when they are open to the public. We strongly discourage everyone from feeding geese, ducks, pigeons or eagles. These birds get plenty of food in their environment. Pigeons are not native to Alaska, and can carry serious disease.
Eagles are more dangerous when habituated by feeding to close contact with people.
And geese have plenty of food available in our lawns, parks and golf courses. Hand-feeding waterfowl contributes to health and safety problems by causing birds to become less wary of people, aircraft and road traffic, and by concentrating birds in unnaturally high numbers at certain locations. Habituation of hand-fed birds to people and vehicles makes it much harder for airport workers to keep them away from airfields. Geese and ducks that are habituated to humans are more likely to be shot. When they cannot be hazed off the airfields, safety personnel are forced to kill them to prevent immediate threats to aircraft.