Birds of Nebraska Species List: Canada Goose

Species List: Canada Goose ( Branta canadensis )

Common name: Canada Goose

Family: Anatidae

Scientific name: Branta canadensis

Altertnate names: Mississippi goose, Hutchin's goose

Notes on Nebraska Birds.
The Missouri Slope Fifty Years Ago. No Place in the United States Then Afforded Such Opportunities for Wildfowl Shooting as the Number of Ducks and Geese Ran Well Into Billions.
The Annual Hunt. Captain Homan's Party Victorious - The Count of Yesterday - Incidents of the Hunt.
The Spring Hunt. What Game was Taken by the Sportsmen's Club and Who Did It?
The Spring Hunt. Result of the Count of the Game Killed on Thursday by the Omaha Sportsmen's Club. The Satisfaction Taken by Our Sportsmen in Beating the Council Bluffs Hunters.
Young Hunters. The Annual Spring Hunt of the Field Sportsmen's Club Last Tuesday. Pretty Good Shooting for "Young Fellers."
The Spring Hunt. The Result of the Count of Game at D.C. Sutphen's Store Yesterday.
Nebraska Notes.
Sportsmanship. The Grand Spring Attack Upon the Feathered Game. Counting the Game Yesterday - Major Thornburgh's Side the Victors.
Birds Bagged. The Annual Hunt of the Omaha Sportsmen's Club. A Vigorous Blazing Away That Brought Down the Game.
The Sportsmen's Hunt. The Result of a Day's Sport - Count of the Game.
Spring Birds of Nebraska.
Annual Fall Hunt. Of the Omaha Sportsmen's Club. Who Were Out and Where they Hunted - Count of the Game.
Nebraska Fly-Way Shooting.
Goose Shooting on the Platte.
On the Platte.
Goose Shooting on the Platte.
Successful Sports. Return of the Hunters. A Fine Lot of Game Bagged and Brought In - The Count for Points - Banquet To-night.
[Signs of Delightful Spring and Hunting Grounds Along the Bottoms of the Platte River at Rogers].
How to Hunt. Three Business Men Invent an Ice-house. Incidents on a Nebraska Marsh. The Foolishness of the Average City Sportsman - The Charm of Camping Out and Telling Big Lies by the Fire.
Game in Central Nebraska.
Out on the Sprawling Platte in the Fabled Olden Days. Sandy's Thrilling First Hunt on the Platte in Fierce March Blasts.
Looking Back on a Picture of a Quarter of a Century Ago.
[Trip to Sandhills of Loup River].
[Duck Hunting at the Lakes and Sloughs North of Cody].
Honkings From the Platte.
Mid-winter Bird Notes.
On a Wild Goose Chase. How Some Omaha Sports Spent Easter Sunday Shooting on a Sandbar. Mike Marley's Hospitality - At the Camp - In the Pits - At Dinner - Story of a Great Day.
[Fall Duck Shooting at the Lake Creek Marshes].
Among the Wild Fowl.
Hunting Geese and Ducks. The Village of Clarks and Its Notable Citizens. A Spring Morning on the Platte. Shooting Honkers From an Ice Blind - The Trip to Prairie Creek and the Sport That Was Enjoyed There.
Among the Gunners.
In the Lugenbeel Marshes. Sunrise and Sunset on the Lovely Waters of the Raccoon. An October Goose and Duck Shoot. Camped in a Pocket of the Hills - Our Blind in the Rushes - A Battle With the Birds - The Day's Work and Repose.
Home of the Canvasback. Shifting of His Favorite Haunts and the Inevitable Fate That Awaits Him. A Spring Shoot in Nebraska. - Deep Within the Sandhill Wilderness. An Elysium for the Ducks and Geese. - A Glorious Morning on Otter Lake.
Notes From the Plains.
On the Legendary Platte. The Story of a Wild Goose Hunt in Wintery December.
Great Sport Down on the Platte.
The Spring Duck Shooting. The Editor, Brewer and Lawyer in the Sandhill Marshes. Blackstone Gets a Crack at a Wolf.
Platte River Geese.
In the Sandhills.
The Spring Shooting. Balmy Weather Brings on the Old Fever.
[Great Spring Flight of Ducks at South Dakota Sandhill Lakes].
[Sunset in the Sandhills and Hunting on Lake Creek].
The Birds of Omaha. A List of the Species Observed In and About the City of Omaha.
The Bird Fauna of the Salt Basin, near Lincoln.
An Indian Summer Duck Shoot on the Old Platte that Vividly Recalled the Halcyon Days When the Feathered Hosts Came Down in Fall and Spring in Countless Thousands. Birds of Cedar Island; Little Bubo and the Crows. On Cedar Island With Our Winter Birds.
In the Days of April the Wild Goose Flys On.

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Species List: Canada Goose ( Branta canadensis )

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