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The Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a large species of goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is occasionally found during migration across the Atlantic in northern Europe.
A greylag-like domestic goose. This list contains breeds and landraces of domestic geese as well as species with semi-domestic populations. Geese are bred mainly for their meat, which is particularly popular in Germanic languages countries around Christmas.
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.
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 ...
Newly hatched Dusky Canada goslings. Breeding populations occur on Middleton Island and the Copper River Delta. An earthquake in 1964 lifted the delta by around 4 feet (1.2 meters), damaging usable breeding grounds. Middleton Island contains around 1,500 breeding birds, which is close to the maximum birds the island can handle. [3]
Pomeranian geese with goslings. The Pomeranian goose (German: Pommerngans, [1] French: L'oie de Poméranie [2]), also known as the Rügener goose, [1] is a breed of domestic goose. Although only an officially recognized breed since 1912, [1] this fowl was developed by Northern German farmers of Pomerania as early as 1500. [3]
The increase in population in substantial amounts raised concern to then DU chief biologist Dr. Bruce Batt who was part of a committee that put together various data and submitted it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Service with the recommendation on ways to combat the growing population and the damage that the ...
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).