Canadian Goose Negative Footprint

Description

Canadian Goose Negative Footprint measures 4.4 inches. Canadian Goose Negative footprint is museum quality polyurethane resin. Made in USA. The Canadian Goose or Canada Goose species name is B. candensis. Our goose footprints are great to take on birdwatching events, birding outings with friends and educational tools for teaching & birdguides. Who knows, your little student may even become a Ornithologist!

Their feet are adapted for both walking on land and swimming in water. Geese have webbed feet with a series of interconnected skin membranes, which enable them to paddle efficiently in the water. The webbing also helps them to propel themselves through the water and maintain balance.

The webbed or palmated feet of birds is only the anterior digits (2–4) are joined by webbing. Found in ducks, geese and swans, gulls, terns, and other aquatic birds (auks, flamingos, fulmars, jaegers, loons, petrels, shearwaters and skimmers).

The Canadian Goose has feet that have a miraculous adaptation that keeps them from freezing. Rete mirabile a Latin for “wonderful net” is a fine, netlike pattern of arteries that interweaves blood from a bird’s heart with the veins carrying cold blood from its feet and legs. Which means they have a countercurrent blood system in their legs, so they have the warm arterial blood that’s coming from their heart and being pushed out. Basically, it’s a heat exchanger. The warm internal blood warms up the colder blood coming from the cold legs and feet.

The Canadian Geese middle toe is longer than the two toes on either side of it. Geese have webbed feet and their tracks are typically four inches in length. Due to the distinct way they walk, goose tracks are slightly turned toward each other.

The Canadian Goose or Branta canadensis, sometimes called Canada Goose, is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body.

It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is occasionally found during migration across the Atlantic in northern Europe.

It has been introduced to the United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, New Zealand, Japan, Chile, Argentina, and the Falkland Islands.

Like most geese, the Canadian goose is primarily herbivorous and normally migratory; often found on or close to fresh water, the Canada goose is also common in brackish marshes, estuaries, and lagoons.

Geese can live between 10 years and 25 years, so it’s not uncommon for a pair to be together for a decade or longer. If a goose’s partner dies, the surviving goose will find a new mate.

A mated pair of Canadian geese will raise one brood each year. The female will lay between two and 10 eggs, which the female incubates while the male keeps a watchful eye on the nest.

The goslings will stay with their parents until the spring after they hatch, when they will join a group of other juvenile geese until they are ready to select a mate.

Flight is an important mechanism for escaping predators for Canada geese and countless other birds, but for a period each summer Canada geese are rendered flightless.

Geese can’t fly when they molt their feathers, because unlike other birds, they molt their feathers all at once.
Canadian geese typically molt in late June or early July, and they will remain grounded for about a month until their new feathers grow in.

Because they are more vulnerable during their molt, they will move to an area of open water near a reliable food source. This provides them walking access to food and water, where they can go to escape predators. The open water also provides them a way to monitor their surroundings for predators.

Canadian Goose Facts:
Conservation status: Least Concern
Scientific classification:
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Branta
Species: B. canadensis
Binomial name: Branta canadensis

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Additional information

Weight	1 lbs
Dimensions	4.4 × 3.5 in
International Goose Day - September 29th	In 1973, International Goose Day was officially celebrated in Mifflin County, and in 1976, Juniata County followed suit. Since then, International Happy Goose Day has been observed annually on September 29th.