With improved game laws and habitat recreation and preservation programs, their populations have recovered in most of their range, although some local populations, especially of the subspecies B. By the end of 1981, more than 6,000 giant Canada geese had been released at 83 sites in 26 counties in North Dakota. The project involved private, state, and federal resources and relied on the expertise and cooperation of many individuals. Forrest soon had 64 pens with 64 breeding pairs of screened, high-quality birds. Nelson, talked Forrest Lee into leaving Minnesota to head the center's Canada goose production and restoration program. In 1964, the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center was built near Jamestown, North Dakota. The giant Canada goose subspecies was believed to be extinct in the 1950s until, in 1962, a small flock was discovered wintering in Rochester, Minnesota, by Harold Hanson of the Illinois Natural History Survey. Between California and South Carolina in the southern United States and northern Mexico, Canada geese are primarily present as migrants from further north during the winter.īy the early 20th century, overhunting and loss of habitat in the late 19th century and early 20th century had resulted in a serious decline in the numbers of this bird in its native range.
Canada geese occur year-round in the southern part of their breeding range, including most of the eastern seaboard and the Pacific coast. The Great Lakes region maintains a very large population of Canada geese.
It breeds in Canada and the northern United States in a variety of habitats. Canada geese are also among the most commonly hunted waterfowl in North America and northwest Europe. Their success has led to them often being considered a pest species because of their depredation of crops and their noise, droppings, aggressive territorial behavior, and habit of begging for food (caused by human hand feeding), especially in their introduced range. Like most geese, the Canada goose is primarily herbivorous and normally migratory it tends to be found on or close to fresh water.Įxtremely successful at living in human-altered areas, Canada geese have proven able to establish breeding colonies in urban and cultivated areas, which provide food and few natural predators, and are well known as a common park species. It has been introduced to the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, and the Falkland Islands. Native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, its migration occasionally reaches northern Europe. The Canada goose (Branta canadensis), called Kanadagås in Skåne, is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body.
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