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 genus of the field goose

The field is a genus of geese and ducks includes ten species, including Grey Goose, the domesticated form is also called a domestic goose. In addition to the Grey Goose are the dwarf Snow Goose, Snow Goose, Bar-headed Goose, goose, swan, snow goose, bean goose, pink-footed goose, emperor goose, white-fronted goose and geese to the genus of the field. Field geese occur almost exclusively in the northern hemisphere, only in winter they are occasionally found further south. The characteristic features of the field geese are in their first line in comparison to other species of geese relatively short legs and long neck. This is gray-brown with slightly elongated feathers. The beak, the teeth are partially visible. The black wing walk towards the end to a point.

The best known member of the genus of the field is the aforementioned geese greylag goose, as it is a direct ancestor of the domestic goose. At the same time it is also the most widespread species of goose. Their habitat extends throughout Europe and parts of Asia. Their wintering areas are in North Africa and Southern Europe. They feed mainly on various plants and grasses. Adult animals can reach a maximum body length of 90cm with a total weight of up to 4kg. Their wingspan is about 1.8 m. Grey geese hatch from March to April, with the eggs may contain seven to thirteen eggs. The eggs hatch after a month the chicks that barely two months are reared by the parents. In general, they remain a year at the parent birds, until they start in the next breeding season, even families. The life expectancy of a gray goose is about 17 years. They usually remain faithful to their partners.

Only the death of the animal's partner in seeking new partners geese. The lifestyle and the look of the white-fronted goose largely resembles that of the geese, but they are slightly smaller and lighter. The emperor goose is distinguished by its conspicuous white head of the other field geese. It is found mainly in Alaska and northern Siberia. Snow geese and snow geese dwarf occur in two different color variations, with the dwarf in snow geese snow-white variant, which gave its name to the two species, is found more often than the dark variety. Snow geese are a bit smaller than White-fronted Geese. The dwarf snow goose is the smallest field of geese and mainly based in North America. She is about 60cm body length slightly smaller than the Brent goose. After a brief period in the 50s, when the stock had fallen sharply, the dwarf snow geese are no longer classified as endangered.