#Canadian goose

[great-and-small]

Bird identification is so fucked up in a really fun way you can’t understand until you get into it. For example, there is a type of goose called the cackling goose that looks exactly like a Canada goose except smaller and “cuter”. The cackling goose is way, way, more rare in most places than its relatively common cousin, so it’s on tons of birders life lists. Everyone wants to see a cackling (look in any bird ID group to see lots of hopeful people posting petite Canada geese). The two species regularly commingle, so sometimes a flock of those common parking lot birds will have the equivalent of a Pokémon shiny just hanging out in the middle of them.

How ridiculous and fun is that? I can never look at a big group of Canada geese without scrutinizing their ranks for an adorable little extremely rare cutie pie cackling goose. It reminds me a bit of mushroom harvesting minus the risk of death if you get it wrong

[if-i-eated-soaps]

wanted to share some of my bird art i made before coming to tumblr! i’m a huge bird fan <3 some of them were either made digitally, with acrylic paint, colored pencil, or pencil. the heron mosaic piece was actually made with cut construction paper!

[mostlybirdsandphotos]

one of my favourite shots from yesterday's outing at the lake

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I fought a Canadian goose and won.

[schroedingerskatze87]

HONK!

[vulturevalentines]

F is for Fugol (Old English for bird)

While the Modern English word "fowl" refers to birds of the order Galliformes, the Old English "fugol" could refer to any bird. This is an example of semantic narrowing, where the meaning of a word becomes less general overtime.

[daffodilmornings]

🪿 i heard the geese again this morning 🪿

- daffodil 🌼

[adam-trademark]

Sycamore Station

(July 28, 2022)

[way-out-there]

Birds make winter warmer 🪶

This one for you @yellowmonitor ❤️❤️❤️

[catfindr]

[stardryad]

Some canadian goose doodles :>

(Inprnt)

[nariscryptozoology]

A Canadian goose I saw last September. I think it’s leucistic? Or diluted? I’m not entirely sure, I’ve never seen another goose like that here... My fiance spotted it today, so I’m happy it’s still around and doing well!

Update: Thank you to all who helped me ID this goose, it’s a Canadian goose hybrid!

[if-i-eated-soaps]

i decided to BRUSH up (haha) on my digital painting skills today! i painted on top of a photo i took, so it's not completely an original piece, but it was definitely good practice for painting textures!

(original picture vs painted over version)

[something-feral]

Southern Ontario trailer park geese, 28.08,23

[jaubaius]

Source

[galacticsabc]

The infamous goose couple at my university is back on campus, and they gave me some inspiration.