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The largest subspecies is B. c. maxima, or the giant Canada goose, and the smallest (with the separation of the cackling goose group) is B. c. parvipes, or the lesser Canada goose. [17] An exceptionally large male of race B. c. maxima , which rarely exceed 8 kg (18 lb) , weighed 10.9 kg (24 lb) and had a wingspan of 2.24 m (7 ft 4 in).
The first bird in this list, the crested shelduck, retains a status of Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List but may in fact be extinct. The last confirmed reporting was in 1964 near Vladivostok. North Korea claimed a sighting in March 1971, but this record is highly suspect.
The Atlantic Canada goose is characterized as having a medium grey chest and warm brown wings and flanks. [1] It ranges in length from 90 to 100 cm (3 to 3.2 ft) and has a wingspan of 160 to 185 cm (5.2 to 6.1 ft).
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A Canada goose wintering at Indiana Dunes State Park is free to fly again after firefighters freed the waterfowl stuck along the icy shore of Lake Michigan. Canada goose frozen in wet sand rescued ...
The list includes information on 157,000 species, about 7,000 more than last year's update. The IUCN said just over 44,000 species are threatened with extinction. That's roughly 2,000 more than ...
Branta sandvicensis (Vigors 1834) (Hawaiian goose) VU D1; Branta canadensis (Linnaeus 1758) (Canada goose) LC. B. c. occidentalis (Baird 1858) (dusky Canada goose) B. c. fulva Delacour 1951 (Vancouver Canada goose) B. c. maxima Delacour 1951 (giant Canada goose) B. c. moffitti Aldrich 1946 (Great Basin Canada goose) B. c. parvipes (Cassin 1852 ...
The dusky Canada goose is occasionally merged with the Vancouver Canada goose (B. c. fulva), but the latter is larger and largely nonmigratory and found from southern Alaska to northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [7] Dusky geese, along with the giant Canada goose, are the most closely related birds to the Hawaiian goose, or nene.