Canadian goose


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Canadian goose

n.
Variant of Canada goose.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Canadian goose - common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting callCanadian goose - common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call
goose - web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
Branta, genus Branta - wild geese
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The 40-foot-high fiberglass Canadian goose with a 60-foot wing span that that announced Sumner as the Wild Goose Capital in the World still stands though it has lost its raison d'etre.
The Canadian goose had made itself comfortable on the field atComerica Parkin Detroit, US, during a rain delay.
In some quarters a cull on the magpie, gull and Canadian goose would be welcome news, but who would enforce this when the RSPB is for the protection of all birds?
My wife was trying to get rid of the stuff we had accumulated over the years as we prepared to move out of Dubai, and in the bag there was a calf-length Canadian goose Trillium with a fur parka.
It's a saccharine ode to the joy of friendship but Stoller also engineers some cute comic interludes and peppers frames with throwaway visual gags like one character using the search engine Gaggle to find a picture of a Canadian goose.
Residents and staff are coming together to provide habitat, and rescue trapped or injured animals to set them free -- including the recent rescue of a Canadian Goose, which eagle-eyed residents called in as acting strangely.
| A new Canadian Goose family at Westgate Pond, by Ron Firby, of Norton
In a message on Twitter, the brigade wrote: "The rescue went swimmingly!" Fire crews also rescued a Canadian Goose which was in distress in a Walsall canal on Saturday morning.
The swan is at the same sanctuary which gave a permanent home to Wilton the Canadian goose, rescued two years ago from Wilton Park in Batley.
These studies were presented alongside an elegant display case containing letters, notes, and location images, including photographs of the tower on Naxos and an image of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Santa Monica Boulevard, with the head of a Canadian goose popping up from the bottom of the frame.
Towards the end of the day one of the hunt stewards was filmed in a shocking bit of footage with a dead Canadian Goose playing around with its dead body and simulating sex acts with it."
Wearing Canadian goose feather stuffed jackets for warmth, we are told that -32C (-25F) is an optimum temperature at which to taste vodka.

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