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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 ...
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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 gās and gæslingr, whence English gosling.
Canada geese range from 75 to 110 cm (30 to 43 in) in length and have a 127–185 cm (50–73 in) wingspan. [16] Among standard measurements, the wing chord can range from 39 to 55 cm (15 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 21 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), the tarsus can range from 6.9 to 10.6 cm (2 + 11 ⁄ 16 to 4 + 3 ⁄ 16 in) and the bill can range from 4.1 to 6.8 cm (1 + 5 ...
The black geese of the genus Branta are waterfowl belonging to the true geese and swans subfamily Anserinae. They occur in the northern coastal regions of the Palearctic and all over North America , migrating to more southerly coasts in winter, and as resident birds in the Hawaiian Islands .
On October 13, 2023, the band released the corresponding EP, 4D Country, featuring unreleased songs from the 3D Country recording sessions. [3] On December 22, 2023, Geese announced on social media platforms that guitarist Foster Hudson would be leaving the band to focus on his academic efforts, and that the band would continue as a quartet. [4]
In North America, there are both feral domestic geese, which are similar to greylags, and occasional vagrant greylags. [13] Greylag geese seen in the wild in New Zealand probably originated from the escape of farmyard geese, [ 18 ] and a similar situation has occurred in Australia, where feral birds are now established in the east and southeast ...
"Grey Goose" (Roud 11684) is a traditional American folk song. Its subject is a preacher who hunts and captures a grey goose for dinner on a Sunday. He tries to kill the goose prior to eating it, but no matter how hard he tries, he cannot kill it, the implication being that he had not properly observed the Sabbath (however, there are other folk songs which may or may not have existed before ...