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Richard Michael "Goose" Gossage (born July 5, 1951) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1972 and 1994. He pitched for nine different teams, spending his best years with the New York Yankees and San Diego Padres .
A SS2 with a solid stock, known as the SS2-V3 would have been produced by Pindad, but was rejected. [12] The Indonesian Army placed an order of 15,000 SS2s to replace their stock of SS1s back in 2005 [9] with an additional order of 10,000 SS2s in 2006. [13] [14] Its first combat use was with Indonesian troops armed with SS2s in Aceh. [15]
Bean goose mate for life, and they usually select their mates in the second winter of their lives. Bean goose use courtship to find mates, including a display of tail feathers. Once they choose their mates, they get together, put their heads close together, and sing to each other. This usually happens when a male chases off another male.
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.
The Dark Mod is a free and open-source software first-person stealth video game, inspired by the Thief series by Looking Glass Studios. The game provides the basic framework and tools (engine, assets, models, and editor) for more than 170 fan-made missions, including several multi-mission campaigns.
Duck, eider, and goose feathers and down have long been popular for bedspreads, pillows, sleeping bags, and coats. The members of this family also have long been used for food. Humans have had a long relationship with ducks, geese, and swans; they are important economically and culturally to humans, and several duck species have benefited from ...
The taiga bean goose (Anser fabalis) is a species of goose that breeds in northern Europe and Asia.It is migratory and winters further south in Europe and Asia. This and the tundra bean goose were recognised as separate species by the International Ornithologists' Union and the American Ornithological Society from 2007, [2] but are still considered a single species by some other authorities ...
The genus name is a Latin word used by Pliny and other Roman authors to refer to an unspecified waterbird, and merganser is derived from mergus and anser, Latin for "goose". [3] In 1843 John James Audubon used the name "Buff-breasted Merganser" in addition to "goosander" in his book The Birds of America .