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Steve’s Bird Of The Day #51.
Hi everyone! Today we continue with the Canada goose. Their babies are called goslings. Usually 5 to 7 eggs are laid. Even though the Canada geese are wonderful and very protective parents, usually only half of the goslings survive to adulthood. They have a strong family bond and the young will stay with their parents for a full year until returning to their breeding location the following spring. They sometimes breed in their first year, but usually not until their second or third year. Goslings start communicating with their parents before they hatch. They have greeting peeps, distress calls and a high pitched trill which is thought to express contentment. Adult Canada geese have at least 13 different calls. The young start off with yellow down which darkens to gray fairly quickly. Feathers begin to grow within a few weeks and by the time the goslings are about half grown they are getting the markings of the adults, but paler. By fall they are identical to the parents. When swimming, the female goes first and the male at the rear where he can watch over his family carefully.
Have a wonderful day everyone and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
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Great knowledge for us 🌹🙏🌹 5 goslings and 1 parent 🌹
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Thanks! Oh, so close! But there are 6 goslings, one is very hard to see. Thanks so much for trying!😀😺🌞
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🌹🙏 Ok, thank you and again Iwill see the picture 👍🏼😍
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Have a very wonderful day! And thanks again for participating.😃😸📷
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Yes, it’s there 👌😊
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I knew you would find it!😃😺
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Have a nice Saturday for you 🙏🌹
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Thank you, and you as well!😀😺
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Good morning my friend, great information here, thank you.
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Good morning Pene! Nice to see you! Glad you liked this. Have a great day!😀😺🌞📷
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6 Goslings and their mother 😃
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You are absolutely correct Saba!😁😸😻
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🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
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😁😸😻🎉🎇
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That is so sweet that the male swims behind his family to watch out for enemies ! ☕️☕️🙂😺🦆
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Yes, he gets to see them all better that way than being in the lead.😁😸📷
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Great Info. Around here there will be several adults that will take care of a buch of broods. Interesting
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Laugh and brighten your heart
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Yes, they will do that, oddly they don’t seem to do it around here, at least I have not seen it yet. I would like to, it would make a nice pic.
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It is interesting to see
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I’m going to have to talk with our geese.
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