Charles River white geese' domain (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
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www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/
In the early 1980s a worker at the Mass. Water Resources Administration (MWRA) pumping station by the Boston University (BU) Bridge brought a small group of geese to the river as guard animals when the plant's guard dog died.
The White Geese are neither farm animals nor pets, but free animals who have survived for generations among the muskrats, red-tailed hawks, and other river dwellers, to serve as sentinels.
They are a mixed urban group, mostly hybrids descended from White China, Emden, and Toulouse geese, themselves descended from wild China Swan Geese and Greylags, among others. So not all of the White Geese are actually white.
In the early 1980s a worker at the Mass. Water Resources Administration (MWRA) pumping station by the Boston University (BU) Bridge brought a small group of geese to the river as guard animals when the plant's guard dog died.
The White Geese are neither farm animals nor pets, but free animals who have survived for generations among the muskrats, red-tailed hawks, and other river dwellers, to serve as sentinels.
They are a mixed urban group, mostly hybrids descended from White China, Emden, and Toulouse geese, themselves descended from wild China Swan Geese and Greylags, among others. So not all of the White Geese are actually white.
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Coordinates: 42°21'12"N 71°6'35"W
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