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iBarber111 t1_jeeqf94 wrote

Reply to comment by tacotacotaco14 in Watertown Purchasing Dog to Chase Geese From Parks and Fields by Conan776

Europe & New Zealand consider Canadian geese an invasive species. I'd love to see MA do the same. Their population growth is not "normal" & is in fact fueled by humans.

It'd be completely reasonable to engage in some population control, like we do with several other species. As the other poster said, their poop makes huge areas of parks basically unusable. They also can't be around airports for fear of another Sully incident. Terrible & invasive bird.

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eiviitsi t1_jefw6vw wrote

It's probably more likely for Canada geese to be considered a "nuisance" species, rather than "invasive," since they actually are native to MA. "Invasive" is usually reserved for species that are non-native.

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737900ER t1_jegv1bb wrote

The canada geese involved in the Cactus 1549 incident were actually migratory. It is the resident ones that are problematic.

> The Smithsonian Institution also performed a stable-hydrogen isotope analysis of the feather material collected from the airplane engines and compared the results with feather samples collected from resident geese in the New York region. The results indicated that the feathers from the airplane engines were similar to samples of known migratory geese and were significantly different from year-round resident populations from the New York region.

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