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#1 Bingo

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Posted 27 August 2013 - 08:35 PM

Capital Region considering Canada geese cull

Goose-related crop damage, water pollution and feces on public and private green space have posed problems for years, but April 2014 is the earliest that any new tactics can be tried, such as stepped-up addling when the eggs have been laid, said the CRD’s Mike Waters.

Ottawa has strict protocols to protect the minority of local geese classed as migratory, Waters said. The management strategy gets sticky when about 1,000 geese are migratory and thus protected by Ottawa, but only avian experts can tell which is which, Waters said. That rules out any notion of a goose hunt. If it comes to a cull, some non-migratory geese would be rounded up and euthanized with gas.

An estimated 6,000 geese are blamed for $300,000 worth of damage to local crops along with much mess, some of which is blamed for warnings against swimming in Glen Lake earlier this summer.

http://www.timescolo...e-cull-1.602329

I don't follow the reasoning of "The management strategy gets sticky when about 1,000 geese are migratory and thus protected by Ottawa, but only avian experts can tell which is which, Waters said."

It should be simple come December. Any Canada goose still hanging around is non-migratory and can be culled.

By the way, were the geese not a problem out at the Sooke Lake reservoir a few years ago?

#2 Mike K.

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Posted 27 August 2013 - 08:47 PM

Could this mean we'll see a seagull cull too?

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#3 Matt R.

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Posted 28 August 2013 - 01:18 AM

Goose tends to be a bit dry and stringy but the fat is excellent for cooking. Hope they at least leave them edible.

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Posted 28 August 2013 - 06:57 AM

Let's take half the goose population and breed them to be predators of deer. Take half the deer population and breed them to be predators of geese. Then let nature take its course. You're welcome.
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#5 jessief

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Posted 28 August 2013 - 10:09 AM

If anyone is interested, here is the full report:
http://www.crd.bc.ca...nicalReport.pdf

One of the major strategy in goose management is egg addling. This obviously needs to be done during breeding season which is when the migratory birds are here.

There is a good graph near the back of the report with a model of possible different strategies. Unfortunately they all involve egg addling. Not sure why models weren't done with just a cull but I imagine they are more complicated to predict.

#6 Bingo

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Posted 01 October 2016 - 07:16 AM

One way to deal with troublesome geese is to have some Jack Russel Terriers on call.

This method was used to keep the geese from invading the legislature grounds and the red carpet during the recent royal visit.

see Jack Knox;  http://www.timescolo...lurry-1.2356091

 

Here is Keff Krieger of Alternative Wildlife Solutions with his terrier Pixie and Easy the Harris Hawk

http://www.alternati...m/services.html

 

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#7 Bingo

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Posted 04 August 2017 - 09:21 PM

Officials say 100 pounds of meat from Canada geese caught in a Washington, D.C., park have been donated to an organization that distributes food to the homeless and others.

The park service says it will be used in meals the kitchen prepares for homeless shelters, rehabilitation clinics and after-school programs.

It's the second year the park service has donated goose meat to the kitchen.

http://www.cbc.ca/ne...eless-1.4235802

 



#8 nerka

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Posted 04 August 2017 - 11:02 PM

Capital Region considering Canada geese cull
 

I do my bit. Whenever I go kayaking I make sure to chase any geese unfortunate enough to be near my path. Got to keep them nervous.



#9 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 18 January 2023 - 04:44 AM

Ask the geese about their problems

 

Ask farmers on Vancouver Island, and many will tell you geese are their biggest problem. “It’s just devastating,” said Terry Michell, owner of Michell’s Farm in Central Saanich.

 

Let’s rephrase that: Ask geese on Vancouver Island and many will tell you farmers are their biggest problem. “It’s just devastating.”

 

Let’s not be so quick to cull (read kill) our wildlife. Let’s at least find a humane way of relocating them.

 

I am no fan of geese, but destroying animals because they are inconvenient is not acceptable. Remember the sad story of the University of Victoria bunnies that were ultimately killed?

 

Let’s be more careful with our geese.

 

Jan Johnston

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https://www.timescol...l-needs-6393490


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 January 2023 - 04:48 AM.


#10 aastra

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Posted 18 January 2023 - 01:07 PM

Pages 21 to 31 of this document are worth a read:
 

 

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)

The Canada Goose is a native species on Vancouver Island. However, in the 1940's, the species "was mainly a migrant and a summer visitant in British Columbia" (Campbell et al. 1990). At that time, few Canada Geese spent summer or winter anywhere in B.C. Counts of wintering birds in five locations around the Lower Mainland, including Ladner and Vancouver, totaled approximately 300 or fewer Canada Geese up until 1972.

Then, as now, large numbers of the Canada Goose are thought to have been migrating annually up and down the length of Vancouver Island, but mostly staying offshore on the west side of the island. At that time, relatively few Canada Geese visited the east side of the Island for any reason.

...it would appear that it is necessary to take steps to control the geese, even though control of Canada Goose was not historically necessary, before the introduction of the mixed birds that do not appear to migrate.

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The following excerpt is from "Alien Animals in British Columbia" published by the British Columbia Provincial Museum's Department of Recreation and Conservation, 1972:
 

 

SECTION V - TRANSFERS WITHIN THE PROVINCE

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis canadensis)

About a dozen birds transferred from Okanagan Valley to Elk Lake near Victoria on Vancouver Island in 1931 have established a population there. A population of about 200 birds present around Elk Lake in 1957 -- 58 appear to have dispersed in smaller flocks over the Saanich Peninsula. In recent years other transfers and introductions of Interior Canada geese have been made by private individuals to the lower mainland and on Vancouver Island (Halliday, 1971).

 



 



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