Articles about Pat and Art. The following articles about the life and art of P. Buckely Moss have been extracted from recent issues of “The Moss Museum Messenger,” an offical publication of the P. Buckley Moss Museum.
Canada Geese New Jersey. www.canadageesenewjersey.com . Canada geese are the most widely distributed and well known of all waterfowl (Bent 1925)
Some mainly Southern Hemisphere birds are called “geese”, most of which belong to the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae.These are: Orinoco goose, Neochen jubata; Egyptian goose, Alopochen aegyptiaca
Taxonomy and etymology. The Canada goose was one of the many species described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work Systema Naturae. It belongs to the Branta genus of geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey species of the genus Anser.
One strange thing about the English language is that the name of a group of s is often different from one species to the next. Some of these group names can be quite unusual too, like “a murder of crows”.
Group Names for Birds: A Partial List By Terry Ross A bevy of quail A bouquet of pheasants [when flushed] A brood of hens A building of rooks A cast of hawks [or falcons] A charm of finches A colony of penguins A company of parrots A congregation of plovers A cover of coots A covey of partridges [or grouse or ptarmigans] A deceit of lapwings A
Facts – Geese: interesting and fun facts about geese.
Goose: Goose, any of various large heavy-bodied waterfowl intermediate in size and build between large ducks and swans, especially those of the genera Anser (so-called gray geese) and Branta (so-called black geese) in the bird family Anatidae.
Another group that you may consider is a nag of wives and a jerk of husbands.