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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, ganzen, ganzerik, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gás and gæslingr, whence English gosling.
A small flock of Pilgrim Geese - an example of color-sexing goose; males are white, females are gray. The plumage of male and female goose is usually the same. However, there are few auto-sexing goose, which are sexually dimorphic and the sex can be identified by the first look by plumage.
A domestic goose is a goose that humans have domesticated and kept for their meat, eggs, or down feathers, or as companion animals.Domestic geese have been derived through selective breeding from the wild greylag goose (Anser anser domesticus) and swan goose (Anser cygnoides domesticus).
The female looks virtually identical, but is slightly lighter at 2.4–5.5 kg (5 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 12 + 1 ⁄ 4 lb), averaging amongst all subspecies 3.6 kg (8 lb), and generally 10% smaller in linear dimensions than the male counterparts. [19] The honk refers to the call of the male Canada goose, while the hrink call refers to the female goose. [20]
Pilgrim geese (Australian Settler geese in Australia [1]) are a breed of domestic goose. They are considered to be a relatively quiet, lightweight and medium-sized breed. [ 2 ] The pilgrim goose is a rare and critically endangered species according to the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC) and was officially entered into the American ...
The upland goose or Magellan goose (Chloephaga picta) is a sheldgoose of the shelduck-sheldgoose subfamily of the Anatidae, the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl such as the geese and swans. [2] [3] Sheldgeese resemble true geese and display similar habits, yet they are more closely related to shelducks and ...
The snow goose (Anser caerulescens) is a species of goose native to North America. Both white and dark morphs exist, ... The female incubates for 22 to 25 days, ...
The female looks virtually identical but is slightly lighter and has a different voice. Some are hard to distinguish from the Canada goose, with which the cackling goose was long assumed to form one species, the cackling goose and the smaller Canada goose subspecies being called the lesser Canada goose.