And, unfortunately, Canada Geese which are grass fed are really the most unappealing of meats.

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It seems, therefore, that all of Hawaii's geese, both extinct and living, are descended from Canada geese.

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Most animals tend to take on certain flavours associated with their diet and Canada Geese more than most.

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About 200 Canada geese are to be culled in the Lake District.

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That these three geese were related to Canada geese was also not that surprising, at least for the nene, which traditional classification had pointed in that direction.

ECONOMIST: Feathers are flying in the world of bird classification

The twelve-hundred-acre property is now a ghost town inhabited only by steel dummies meant to scare off the ubiquitous Canada geese that squirt a carpet of green across middle Jersey.

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They lived at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, kept up on work in Jordan via e-mail, spun around in a Volkswagen Beetle, browsed in bookstores, walked in nearby woods and watched Canada geese settling down for autumn nights.

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Encouraged by Arctic governments and dwindling reserves elsewhere, oil companies are flocking north like migrating geese to explore the continental shelves of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia.

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So in addition to a healthy local population of bald eagles, hundreds of other eagles from Canada and New England spend the winters around here, feasting on fish, geese and ducks.

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