A wild goose never reared a tame gosling. An Irish Proverb quote credit + large image The Tundra Swan The Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) is a small Holarctic swan. The two taxa within it are usually regarded as conspecific, but are also sometimes split into two species, Cygnus bewickii (Bewick’s…
When the goose honk high, fair weather; when the goose honks low, foul weather. A proverb credit + large image Brent Goose The Brant Goose (Branta bernicla), a goose of the genus Branta, is known in North America as Brant, Brent Goose or Black Brant. It breeds on the Arctic…
The great political tugs of the past 35 years have concerned the distribution of the golden eggs. In the 1980s and 1990s we must focus on the health of the goose. A Paul Tsongas quotation credit + large image Canada Goose The Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) is a goose belonging…
A market is three women and a goose. An old proverb credit + large image Ross’s Goose The Ross’s Goose (Chen rossii or Anser rossii) is a North American species of goose. The Ross’s Goose is a rare vagrant to Western Europe, but is commonly kept in wildfowl collections and…
Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs. An old proverb credit + large image Greater White-fronted Goose The Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) is a goose species closely related to the smaller Lesser White-fronted Goose. In Europe it has been known as simply “White-fronted Goose”. The Greater White-fronted…
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar. A Lee Loevinger Quotation large image Emperor Goose The Emperor Goose (Chen canagica) is a species of goose. The…
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. A Jean Baptiste Colbert Quotation large image Emperor Goose The Emperor Goose (Chen canagica) is a species of goose. The Emperor Goose is a small stocky goose found in Alaska…
