The lives of Geese

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland today for thousands of farmers worry about lead that flock of geese can be a carefree life - day after day, year after year.

The different minds of barnacle geese

The black and white barnacle goose, goose barnacle, or owes, how many animals their name to the look. With her ​​white face and black neck and neck she is reminiscent of the traditional garb of a Catholic nun. There are no color differences between the sexes.

The migratory bird found mainly in the grasslands along rivers, lakes and dams, where stands of grass, water plants and insects fat foods available. These heavy plants are very important for the goose so that it can create fat reserves. Between Polar Sea and English Channel Grows she is in more northern areas, where it breeds in summer in Greenland, the Arctic, Siberia and Norway, the sea and are on their way to winter quarters England, Holland and Belgium romps in the water and lush river valleys in northern Germany. begins in late May, the breeding season. Then place the approximately 2 kg and up to 70 cm tall geese 4 to 6 eggs. It then takes about 25 days until they have ausgebrühtet their young.

This happens mostly in small colonies of about 50 birds on cliffs or islands, affording adequate protection against egg thieves and predators such as foxes and gulls. With their young, the birds migrate later across the north of Germany. Especially along rivers, as the same one finds the black-white barnacle geese then very often. A sociable, but monogamous bird has been found only once a pair of barnacle geese, then the animals remain together for life. Most reverse the birds back even every year to the same nesting site, they highlight during incubation with a Kotring and clearly visible so in the following breeding season, there has been formed in the faeces one green vegetable ring, which is from the air outstandingly visible. Apart from this period is the barnacle goose in their social behavior is a very sociable bird who goes about like in large schools and are also welcome other geese followed.

Your reputation is in the individual monosyllabic and shrill. In large schools, he sounds like dogs barking. Protection of the Barnacle Goose The Barnacle Goose is it only in the European-Russian space. The European Union has recognized its responsibility and taken the not endangered, but quite rare species of goose for their protection and for their preservation on the Vogelschutzriechtlinie. This high protection status to more adequately ensure the goose habitat and sustenance. After the inventory was decimated in the 1950s, very much, he is now considered completely unthreatened.