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Canada Goose

Branta canadensis (Linnaeus 1758)

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Branta canadensis (Canada Goose) is a species of birds in the family Anatidae. It is associated with freshwater habitat. It is native to United States, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, Turks and Caicos Islands, Cayman Islands, North America, Greenland, Haiti, United States, the Bahamas, Cuba, Mexico, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Canada Goose is a diurnal herbivore. Individuals can grow to 8000 g. Reproduction is dioecious. Canada Goose has parental care (pair provides care). It relies on flight to move around.

URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000873
Definition: A biome that applies to the freshwater realm.

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/6252001

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3424932

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3576916

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3580718

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/6255149

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q223

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3723988

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/6252001

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3572887

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3562981

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3996063

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/6251999

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/4566966

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59099
Definition: animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material

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URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q906470
Definition: animal behavior characterized by activity during the day, with a period of inactivity at night.

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681
Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/parentalCarePair
Definition: Both parents feed and nurture offspring.
Attribution: Richard M. Sibly, Christopher C. Witt, Natalie A. Wright, Chris Venditti, Walter Jetz, and James H. Brown. 2012. Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds. PNAS 109(27):10937-10941, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206512109

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URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000367
Definition: self-propelled movement of an organism from one location to another through the air, usually by means of active wing movement

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EOL has data for 44 attributes, including:

body length
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0001256
- Definition: The distance from point to point along the longest axis of the body of an organism.
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145 cm
body mass
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0001259
- Definition: The amount of matter in the body of an organism.
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4550 g
eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Clupea pallasii Valenciennes 1847 (Pacific herring)
foraging habitat
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/ForagingHabitat
- Definition: Primary habitat where the species forages during the breeding season.
- Attribution: Richard M. Sibly, Christopher C. Witt, Natalie A. Wright, Chris Venditti, Walter Jetz, and James H. Brown. 2012. Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds. PNAS 109(27):10937-10941, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206512109
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freshwater
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000873
- Definition: A biome that applies to the freshwater realm.
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habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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meadow
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000108
- Definition: A habitat of rolling or flat terrain where grasses predominate. Typically, what is called a meadow has more biodiversity than a grassland as the former contains not only grasses but a significant variety of annual, biennial and perennial plants.
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has pathogen
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002557
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Clostridium perfringens
is eaten by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002471
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Aquila chrysaetos (Linnaeus 1758) (Golden Eagle)
native range includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NativeRange
- Definition: Lists jurisdictions in which a given organism is a member of the undisturbed fauna or flora.
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United States
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/6252001
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parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Definition: automatically added during harvest
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
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Amidostomum
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
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Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linnaeus 1766) (Bald eagle)
trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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herbivore
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59099
- Definition: animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material
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wingspan
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q245097
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127 cm

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Canada goose. View this species on GBIF

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Canada goose includes 7 children: