the body of water should be large andhave low banks or shorelines for loafing and the climate should not be to cold(Wormer). It is often on the wintering grounds that the geese choose their matewhom they will pair with for life, unless one is killed (Obee). Some Canada Geesemigrate as far as Mexico, others stop further north, some don't migrate at all andsome even migrate across the ocean to Japan (Ross) (Refer to maps 1 and 2 forwintering areas and densities of geese). Canada Geese like to feed mid-morning and just before sunset leaving themid-day for relaxing. Canada Geese graze cord grass, spike rush, naiad, glasswort,bullrush, salt grass, seepweed, Bermuda grass, golden dock, lycium, brome grass,wild barley, rabbit-foot grass, pepper grass, saltbush, cattail, alkali grass, and tansymustard (Wormer). They will eat Ladino or Dutch white clover if it is mixed withother grasses that the goose normally eats, they will not eat alfalfa unless it isyoung and tender (Wormer). Canada Geese also feed on all human grown grainsbut their favorite of all foods is corn (Breen). The most popular foods are, cornwhich forty three percent of geese feed on, small grain fed on by twenty fourpercent of geese, twenty two percent feed on pasture, and soybeans accounts forthe other nine percent (Breen). Apart from dry land grazing Canada Geese alsofeed on some aquatic growth (Wormer). Canada Geese are mostly vegetarian butthey do feed on some small insects, insect larvae, mollusks and small crustaceans(Wormer). Dogs will chase and kill Canada Geese for fun and coyotes and wolves willalso kill Canada Geese for food, but most of the time geese are much to fast forland mammals unless they are hurt or wounded or it is during molting season(Wormer). Molting season is the most dangerous time of the Canada Goose's lifebecause it cannot fly, however even without their flight feathers a Canada Goosecan still outrun a man over land and may even be able to fight of a...
