Canada Geese
by Jennie Breeze
Title
Canada Geese
Artist
Jennie Breeze
Medium
Photograph - Original Img_3786
Description
The Canada goose is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white patches on the face, and a brown body. Like most geese, the Canada goose is primarily herbivorous and normally migratory; it tends to be found on or close to fresh water. Extremely successful at living in human-altered areas, Canada geese have proven able to establish breeding colonies in urban and cultivated areas, which provide food and few natural predators, and are well known as a common park species. Their success has led to them often being considered a pest species because of their depredation of crops and issues with their noise, droppings, aggressive territorial behavior, and habit of begging for food, especially in their introduced range. Canada geese range from 30 to 43 in. in length and has a 50–73 in. wingspan. The male Canada goose usually weighs 5.7–14.3 lb, averaging amongst all subspecies 8.6 lb. The female looks virtually identical, but is slightly lighter at 5.3–12.1 lb, averaging amongst all subspecies 7.9 lb, and generally 10% smaller in linear dimensions than the male counterparts. The female also possesses a different, and less sonorous, honk than the male. Between California and South Carolina in the southern United States and northern Mexico, Canada geese are primarily present as migrants from further north during the winter.
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February 26th, 2017
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