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Canada Goose

Branta canadensis

Photo by BillBaerg
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Field Notes

Description:

15 minutes after landing in the pond for a drink and some preening, these geese started to goof off and do underwater swimming, diving and swimming underwater ! ! !

Reference Links:

Canada Goose, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
BillBaerg
Not at all Sanjay ! ! ! These are 1st year Juvenile and Adult Canada Geese. I've added the last in the series is a photo of a Cackling Goose. Notice the shorter neck and a more pronounced nose to the beak. Us Canadians have been eating and calling these little tiny geese Cackling Geese along with our Canada geese for longer than I've been alive. They are not hard to distinguish at all if you've been aware of them and lived with both species for a lifetime ! !
SanjaySaklani
Cackling Goose Adults Recently split from Canada Goose Typically smaller than Canada Goose, with shorter neck and bill More common in western U.S. and Canada Some individuals are difficult to distinguish with certainty (both species are highly variable)
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2012

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