tress, gosling distress, and gosling contentment call as well as ascream of pain when the bird is bitten (Wormer). It takes a female goose a day to a day and half to lay an egg (Wormer). Each goose lays and average of five to six eggs, sometimes only two andsometimes one goose may lay eleven to twelve eggs (Wormer). With sixty percentof all eggs laid hatching tow Canada Geese produce an average of three goslingsper year (Wormer). Male to Female births are split down the middle, 50-50(Wormer). The eggs are dull white and 2.86 by 1.89 inches to 3.43 by 2.34 inches(Godfrey) and weigh 3.5 to 7.5 ounces (Breen). The incubation period laststwenty five to twenty eight days with an average incubation temperature of 100.4degrees Fahrenheit to 101.3 degrees Fahrenheit (Wormer). Most of the CanadaGeese killed from hunting are twelve to twenty-three years old (Wormer). CanadaGeese in captivity however live an aver age of twenty to thirty years andsometimes even over forty (Wormer). The Canada Goose has a very rapid growthrate, in fact if an average human baby were to grow as fast as a gosling it wouldweigh one-hundred and thirty-eight pounds by the time it was eight weeks old(Wormer). Goslings begin to develop feathers after their third week and after theirfifth week the feather are the color of and adults (Breen). The adult geese beginmolting when the goslings are two weeks old and is unable to fly for five to sixweeks (Breen). After the molting period the goslings are eight to nine weeks oldand are ready to fly with their parents (Breen). The Canada Goose has two types of habitat, breeding grounds, andWintering grounds (Ross). Canada Gees migrate north to their breeding groundsand south to their wintering grounds (Ross). During migration north and south thegeese follow four main flyways, Atlantic flyway, Pacific Flyway, MississippiFlyway and the Central Flyway (Breen). Within these flyways are migrationcorridors (refer to maps 1 and 2), biologis...
