- This video was taken at Potter Marsh on June 1, 2015.
- I suspect the goslings had recently hatched.
- Probably the geese are of the subspecies Branta canadensis parvipes the Lesser Canada Goose.
- The following information comes from: Mowbray, Thomas B., Craig R. Ely, James S. Sedinger and Robert E. Trost. 2002. Canada Goose (Branta canadensis), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/682
- Breeders are monogamous, with life-long pair bonds formed usually during the second year. Offspring remain with their parents throughout the first year of life, traveling together in large flocks of family groups, as far south as Veracruz and Jalisco in south-central Mexico (Saunders and Saunders 1981).
- Female selects nest site, with male following while prospecting (Balham 1954, Collias and Jahn 1959, Cooper 1978). Female may prepare several sites by scraping and manipulating vegetation before selecting final site. Frequently uses old nest sites (Geis 1956, Brakhage 1965, Vermeer 1970).
- First goslings hatch approximately 30–37 d after nest initiation.
- Only females incubate. Nest attendance gradually increases during laying period until penultimate egg laid (Cooper 1978). Continuous incubation likely starts after last egg in small clutches, earlier in large clutches.
- Males remain in vicinity of nest throughout incubation, occasionally waiting near mate, and join female on incubation breaks.
- Precocial; goslings fully covered with down. Leave nest within 24 h, by which time they are able to walk, swim, feed, and dive.
- Begin to peck at small objects soon after hatch; graze wherever parents lead them; spend most of their time feeding or sleeping; stay close to parents; little if any brood mixing.
- Young precocial; parents do not actively provide goslings with food; both parents lead brood to feeding areas variable distances from nest site; goslings feed voraciously (Fowler and Ely 1997).
- Young leave breeding areas with parents; in large subspecies, offspring remain with parents throughout first year
