Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Canada Goose

The head and neck black, with a "chinstrap" distinguish the Canada goose from all the other white geese, with the exception of the Barnacle Goose, but the second has a breast black and gray, rather than the body brown plumage. There are seven subspecies of this bird, in different sizes and plumage details, but all recognized as Canada geese. Some of the smaller breeds can be difficult to distinguish from the crowd noise small overlap Goose.
 
 Canada Goose Credit

However goose chatting generally much smaller, a little 'bigger than Mallard, with a shorter neck and smaller bill. The largest is the subspecies B. c. Maxima or "Giant Canada Goose," and smaller (in common with the group cackling goose) is B. c. parvipes or "lesser Canada goose This specimen is the largest wild goose ever recorded of any kind. Life expectancy in the wild of geese that survive to adulthood including 10-24 years.


Like most geese, the Canada Goose migratory course. The wintering area in the United States more calls head from large groups of Canada Geese in V formation of signal transitions in the spring and autumn. In some areas, migration routes have changed due to changes in habitat and food sources. In the second year of their life in Canada Geese find a mate. The female lays 3-8 eggs and both parents protect the nest while the eggs incubate, but the female spends more time in the nest than the male. The egg predators are known to Arctic foxes coyotes, raccoons, foxes from the north, large gulls, Raven, crows and bears Americans.
 
 
As changes occur during the annual summer breeding season, adults lose their flight feathers on the day 20-40, recovered flight around the same time as you start flying geese The geese are often seen leading goose online, usually a parent in front and one on the back. Although parents are hostile foreign geese may form groups of a number of geese and a few adults, called crèches.
 

In North America, non-migratory Canada goose populations have increased. The species is often found on golf courses, parking lots and parks, the only migratory geese on rare occasions, however. In many areas, non-migratory Canada Geese are now considered pests by humans. It The agency responds to municipalities or private landowners, such as golf courses, the geese obtrusive or object to their waste. Nests Addling goose eggs are destroyed and as a method of birth control for people promoted Geese have a tendency to attack humans when they feel threatened themselves or their goslings.

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