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Canada Goose

Branta canadensis

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 ! ! !

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2 Comments

BillBaerg
BillBaerg 12 years ago

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
SanjaySaklani 12 years ago

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)

BillBaerg
Spotted by
BillBaerg

Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

Spotted on Oct 12, 2008
Submitted on Jan 20, 2012

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