Canada Goose

Size: 22-45 inches

Can be found in city parks and golf courses as well as along the edges of the San Francisco Bay and its marshes. Canada geese eat plants.

Sounds: "honk"

Food: roots, seeds, and shoots of plants, grain, berries, some insects and crustaceans

Nest: scrape near water

In Marin: year round






Photo courtesy of Sherry Ballard, California Academy of Sciences
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