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Published: 2018-03-15 17:25:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 432; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 0
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Hi guys. Still have some photos to upload from my trip
This was taken in Vancouver Stanley Park, B.C., Canada.
Some quick facts:
The black head and neck with a white "chinstrap" distinguish the Canada goose from all other goose species, with the exception of the cackling goose and barnacle goose (the latter, however, has a black breast and gray rather than brownish body plumage)
Canada geese range from 75 to 110 cm (30 to 43 in) in length and have a 127–185 cm (50–73 in) wingspan
The male Canada goose usually weighs 2.6–6.5 kg (5.7–14.3 lb), averaging amongst all subspecies 3.9 kg (8.6 lb). The female looks virtually identical, but is slightly lighter at 2.4–5.5 kg (5.3–12.1 lb), averaging amongst all subspecies 3.6 kg (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.
This species is native to North America. It breeds in Canada and the North United States. in a variety of habitats. The Great Lakes maintains a very large population of Canada geese. Canada geese occur year-round in the southern part of their breeding range, including most of the eastern seaboard and the Pacific coast. 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.
Learn more about these guys!
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You're most welcome! Hugs! 😊
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You're welcome!
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Such a pretty bird. I like the goose's expression in this photo. A pair of these flew only about ten or twelve or maybe even eight feet above my head last month. Closest I've ever been.
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They are. I think they are fascinating. That's pretty close to them! Are there a lot where you are from?
Here in Alberta they tend to be aggressive. Can't really get up close cause they will get upset or fly away. But you can see them in fields, parks and what not. Just have to be careful because they are known for attacking people, lol. But in Vancouver at the Stanley Park it's totally different. They are completely use to people and there are tons of them. I got so close I was only a foot away if that. It was a neat experience considering here in Alberta they will not let you get that close. They were walking around people and coming up to them, just neat.
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There are a few but they're usually only flying through and I've only rarely seen them on the ground or in ponds. I don't know if they're aggressive here, I think they are, but I'd be too afraid to find out for sure, lol. I did see a huge group of them in a field once, which was a nice sight. That does sound awesome being that close to them
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Yeah definitely was neat
I think they normally are aggressive in most areas, just with Stanley Park being so close to the ocean and so many people they got use to people. Lots of places for food for them there so I doubt they leave often lol
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These birds are relatively new breed to our country, it was only during the 1970's when their introduction to our environment was successful. It's not the only animal that's originates from Canada because almost all of our beaver population is Castor canadensis. In Finnish it's called "Kanadan majava" Canadian beaver but I don't know if it's called that there also. Reason for that is that our beaver population was hunted to extension during the 1800 century.
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Well the beaver is a national emblem for us 
We have lots of geese here in Canada. So much. I know a lot of farmers hate them because they screw up their crops, lol.
Sad that the beaver pop was hunted to extension 
But it's neat that you guys have some of the Canadian animals there
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Never seen a beaver in it's natural habitat, I remember that at one river (a brook or a creek in reality, we have "rivers" that are river only on map 
I don't remember what was the reason for Canadian geese's, why they were planted here. It has to do hunting I bet, are they bigger than our ducks? I remember that I read somewhere that there was a big debate about if it's a good idea to bring them here, how they affect our other birds and etc. But seems like they haven't have a negative impact.
Black bears would be nice add to our forests, there's always a bear debate during the Summer. How dangerous they are and how people are afraid to go to the forests. It's easy to laugh to them because here we don't have bears, well there's been a few times when one wanders here but they don't stay long. Too much people and scarce hiding places for them.
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That's pretty interesting. I would've thought since you guys call it that.. That you would have tons of lakes. Do other parts have more lakes than the area you are in?
Geese are very large birds, they are bigger than all our ducks.. I'm not sure what all species you have and how large they are, but the Canadian goose is probably bigger lol
I'm glad they haven't had a negative impact. The only think I really know of that they do bad is poop (lol) and eat farmers wheat (or whatever they are growing) other than that I don't think they harm much.
As for bears, well.. I don't know. They can be kind of scary. I have encountered a few and luckily have gotten away.. They do make the forests a little bit more dangerous, but I'm more afraid of a cougar than I am a bear when I go hiking. Some bears here in the west part of Canada have been getting more desensitized to humans (doesn't help people feed them when they are camping or hiking) and have come into the city or very close to. But that's the same for the cougars, coyotes, moose, elk, etc.
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Sorry for the late reply, I've been sitting at work on front of a computer so I haven't been too keen to continue it at home.
I checked and we have lakes about 10% of our land, if you drive like one hour to the east from where I live the scenery will change and there's hills and lakes everywhere. Here's more information www.visitfinland.com/article/t… I don't know how much the fact that like 500 years ago a lot of this region was sea affects to the lack of lakes, imagine that the old stone church that I have photographed has been almost next to sea when it has been built.
We have Branta leucopsisthat have gotten people angry, mostly those that live in Helsinki. Those geese tend to fill parks and seasides when people are trying to have picnics etc. 
Wow, that's something you have seen. I don't even remember seeing a moose, a couple of deers but those are so shy that I didn't manage to get a picture of them. I know that we have foxes on our forests but only one I have seen was a (sadly) dead one. We don't have cougars here, well we have some kind of cougars... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VshBT5… 
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Hmm, that's really interesting. 188,000 lakes < Jesus! that's a lot, lol.
People are just too miserable
Yup, I've seen tons of Moose, Elk, Caribou, Deer, Bears, Cougars, Wolfs, Mountain Goats, Bighorn Sheep, etc.
I've never seen a fox though, they are so cute
Of course most of these were in the distance or while driving and if I did see them fairly close I never had my camera, but as a kid we saw wildlife a lot living in the mountains.
I can see why wolfs frighten people, but they typically don't attack humans, lol. I've had a few encounters with some. We have more of a problem with Coyotes killing peoples pets and livestock.
At least the wolves here seem to be more suspicious of people and generally stay away (not always)
And lol, nice, yup those are definitely a different type of cougar
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If you google ”Leistilänjärvi, Finland” it should put you right in the middle of old dried lake bed. That’s like 15 minutes drive from where I live, I wish it would still be a lake. It would be nice change in scenery.
I don’t know why people hate and are scared of our wildlife, there was time when one of our eagle species was almost killed to an extinsion. Another factor was DDT but farmers and fisherman killed them of because they caused problems to them. Or they thought that because it was all a big case of misinformation. Sorry I can’t remember what the thing was that caused all that.
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Maybe one day it'll be a lake again, who knows with this weather
That's sad about your eagles
It happens too often and people don't care.
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