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The Sebastopol is a medium-sized goose with long, white curly feathers. The feathers of the neck are smooth and sometimes greyish brown. Crosses have produced all-grey, buff, and saddle back variants. [5] [6] Feathers on the breast may be curly (frizzle) or smooth. The gander weighs 12-14 lbs while the goose weighs 10-12 lbs.
Source: [2] Head of a white Chinese goose A flock of Emden geese A flock of Twente geese Öland goose in pond. One of about 100 in existence. Adler goose (Адлерская) [3] [4]
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.
Most goslings will stay by their parents' side for the first year of life then grow apart from the adults. Young geese who fly together are known as "gang broods" and typically fly south together ...
The Sevastopol Sketches (pre-reform Russian: Севастопольскіе разсказы, romanized: Sevastópolʹskiye razskázy; post-reform Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, romanized: Sevastópolʹskiye rasskázy), translated into English as Sebastopol Sketches or Sebastopol Stories or Sevastopol, [1] are three short stories by Leo Tolstoy published in 1855 to ...
A sign reading: 'I AM AN AMERICAN', on the Wanto Co grocery store at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 8th December 1941.
Six eggs in the nest at Mekszikópuszta, Hungary A group of goslings of greylag geese. Greylag geese tend to pair bond in long-term monogamous relationships. [27] Most such pairs are probably life-long partnerships, though 5 to 8% of the pairs separate and re-mate with other geese. [27]
Male goslings have a silvery, light yellow fur [2] and a light coloured bill akin to an Embden gosling. [11] By 12–14 days old, the males are distinctly white coloured. [8] Female goslings have deep greyish-green fur and a dark coloured bill similar to Toulouse goslings. [11]