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The Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a large species of goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is occasionally found during migration across the Atlantic in northern Europe.
Canada geese feeding on farmland in North Canterbury high country (PDF). Wellington, N.Z.: Dept. of Conservation. ISBN 9780478013207. Coleman, Jim (April 2008). Review of Impacts to Pasture Production by Black Swans (Cygnus atratus) and Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) in Northland (PDF). Landcare Research Contract Report: LC0708/104.
Snow geese are visitors to the British Isles where they are seen regularly among flocks of brant, barnacle goose, and greater white-fronted goose. There is also a feral population in Scotland from which many vagrant birds in Britain seem to derive. Around 2015, a small group of 3–5 snow geese landed on the north shore of O'ahu. They were seen ...
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The word "goose" is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, respectively), West Frisian goes, gies and guoske, Dutch: gans, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gās and gæslingr, whence English gosling.
Adult geese are often seen leading their goslings in a line with one parent at the front, and the other at the back of the "parade". Like most geese, the cackling goose is naturally migratory, with their overwintering range being most of the U.S. (locally in Western Canada, the West Coast of the U.S. and northern Mexico). The calls overheard ...
This man's job is humanely relocating geese from residential areas with a trained team of dogs – and business is booming! Meet the people (and dogs) who chase geese for a living [Video] Skip to ...
Within one month, Boomer cleared about 500 geese off the property and as Bob says, "The rest, as they say, was history!" Young sources dogs from specific breeders, rescue organizations and people ...