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Canada Goose
Branta canadensis
34.3071, -111.094
Field Notes
Description:
"Our most common and familiar Goose. Black head and neck marked with distinctive white "Chin strap" stretching from ear to ear. U-shaped rump band; and long neck. The approximately seven named subspecies vary in overall color, generally darker in the west; ranges from pale 'canadensis' of the Eastern Seaboard to dark 'Occidentalis', which breeds on the Eastern Gulf of Alaska Coast." (from National Geographic Guide to the Birds of North America edited by John L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer
Habitat:
Found one pair of these birds at the Southeast Water Recharge Pond at Chandler Veteran's Desert Oasis Park in Chandler, Arizona.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedFebruary 20, 2012
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