Canada Goose

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“Bernicla canadensis. Canada Goose. Common Wild Goose. Tail normally 18-feathered. Bill, feet, head, and neck black; on the chin a broad white patch mounting on sides of head behind eyes, sometimes broken on chin; not extending forward to jaws; white touches usually on eyelids. Upper tail-coverts definitely white; rump blackish; tail-feathers black. General color brownish-gray below, all the feathers with paler gray or whitish edges, those of sides of body usually darker than rest of under parts, the lower belly and crissum definitely white. Iris brown.” Elliot Coues, 1884

Keywords

birds, ornithology, canada goose, North American birds, ground forager birds, herbivorous birds, Bernicla canadensis, Common Wild Goose

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Birds: F-G, Canada Miscellaneous

Source

Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1884)

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