Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs…
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.
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Emperor Goose: Have you seen this bird?
Emperor Goose
The Emperor Goose (Chen canagica) is a species of goose. The Emperor Goose is a small stocky goose found in Alaska and nearby parts of Russia.
Breeding: They breed on coastal tundra, laying 3–7 eggs in a ground nest. The Emperor Goose breeds primarily in western Alaska, and in Russia flanking the Bering Strait.
Identification Tips:
• Length: 18 inches Wingspan: 43 inches
• Sexes similar
• Small coastal goose
• Gray body with black and white feather edging
• White tail
• Orange legs and feet
Adult
• White head and nape
• Pink bill
• Black throat
Immature
• Dark head with variable white flecks
• Dark bill
Similar species:
Gray body with black and white feather edging is distinctive.
Food: Emperor geese feed on seaweed, eelgrass, algae, beach rye, beach pea, sandwort, grasses and sedges, crowberries, mollusks and crustaceans found in intertidal areas, salt marshes and tundra meadows.
Population: Alaska’s emperor goose population declined greatly from 139,000 in 1964 to 42,000 in 1986.
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.
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The art of taxation consists in so plucking…
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
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Emperor Goose on nest:(orange head): Have you seen this bird?
Emperor Goose
The Emperor Goose (Chen canagica) is a species of goose. The Emperor Goose is a small stocky goose found in Alaska and nearby parts of Russia.
Breeding: They breed on coastal tundra, laying 3–7 eggs in a ground nest. The Emperor Goose breeds primarily in western Alaska, and in Russia flanking the Bering Strait.
Identification Tips:
• Length: 18 inches Wingspan: 43 inches
• Sexes similar
• Small coastal goose
• Gray body with black and white feather edging
• White tail
• Orange legs and feet
Adult:
• White head and nape
• Pink bill
• Black throat
Similar species:
Gray body with black and white feather edging is distinctive.
Food: Emperor geese feed on seaweed, eelgrass, algae, beach rye, beach pea, sandwort, grasses and sedges, crowberries, mollusks and crustaceans found in intertidal areas, salt marshes and tundra meadows.
Population: Alaska’s emperor goose population declined greatly from 139,000 in 1964 to 42,000 in 1986.
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.
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Listen to all, plucking a feather from every…
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
A Chinese Proverb
Canada Goose: Have you seen this bird?
Canada Goose
The Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) is a goose belonging to the genus Branta, which is native to North America. It is quite often called the Canadian Goose, but that name is not strictly correct, according to the American Ornithologists’ Union.
Identification Tips:
• Length: 16-25 inches Wingspan: 50-68 inches
• Sexes similar
• Large long-necked goose
• Black bill, head and neck
• White throat patch extends up to cheek
• Brown back, upper wing and flanks
• Brownish-white breast and belly
• White upper tail and under tail coverts contrast with black tail
• Great size variation, with some northern subspecies duck-sized
• Immature similar to adult
This species is native to North America and breeds in Canada and the northern United States. Its nest is usually located in an elevated area near water such as streams, lakes, ponds. It’s also sometimes found on a beaver lodge. Canada Goose eggs are laid in a shallow depression lined with plant material and down. The Great Lakes region maintains a very large population of Canada Geese.
Canada Geese are herbivores although they sometimes eat small insects and fish. Their diet includes green vegetation and grains such as wheat, beans, rice, and corn when available.
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
A Chinese Proverb
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A goose quill is more dangerous…
A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s claw.
An English proverb
Have you seen this bird?
Red-winged Blackbird
The Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North and much of Central America.
Identification Tips:
• Length: 7.25 inches
• Sharply-pointed bill
• Frequents marshy habitats in summer, open habitats at other times of year
• Often flocks with other species of blackbirds
Adult male:
• Bright red patch on wings bordered by yellow (border missing in some races)
• Black plumage
• Immature male similar to adult male but has pale supercilium and brown edges to black feathers
Adult female:
• Pale supercilium
• Heavily streaked underparts
• Upperparts brown and white
• Sometimes has yellow tinge to face and throat
• Females very dark in some races
• Juveniles similar to adult females
The Red-winged Blackbird inhabits open grassy areas. It generally prefers wetlands, and inhabits both freshwater and saltwater marshes. It is also found in dry upland areas, where it such inhabits meadows, prairies, and old fields.
The Red-winged Blackbird is sexually dimorphic. Seeds and insects make up the bulk of the Red-winged Blackbird’s diet.
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It is a blind goose …
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox’s sermon
A John Lyly quotation
Identify this bird
Identification:
• Length: 19 inches Wingspan: 58-59 inches
• Sexes similar
• Medium-sized long-necked goose
• Different color morphs
• Frequently gathers in huge flocks
• Sometimes hybridizes with similar Ross’s Goose
The food of the snow goose is largely vegetable, in fact almost wholly so during the greater part of its sojourn in its winter home. Various kinds of ordinary grass form a large part of this bird’s food, at least during their winter residence in the United States.
Snow geese dispense shrill falsetto cries as they fly about in companies of their own kind, or else mingle sociably with other species.
The snow goose, although it plays a less conspicuous part in the interior of the country, where it seldom alights, becomes the first and greatest object of sport after the flocks alight in James Bay. The havoc spread throughout their ranks increases as the season advances and their crowds thicken.
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox’s sermon
By John Lyly
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