What is the name for a male goose?
Goose Old English "gōs" with the plural "gēs" and "gandres" (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, and gosling, respectively), Frisian "goes", "gies" and "guoske", New High German "Gans", "Gänse", and "Ganter", and Old Norse "gās". This term also gave , (goose, from Old Irish "géiss"), , Ancient ("khēn"), , (heron), Sanskrit "hamsa" and "hamsi", , Avestan "zāō", , , ("guska" / "gusak"), ("gusyna" / "gus"), , and ("ghāz"). The term "goose" applies to the female in particular, while "gander" applies to the male in particular. Young birds before fledging are called "goslings". The collective noun for a group of geese on
Orinoco goose English name. The Orinoco goose is a very territorial species in the breeding season, and usually nests in hollow trees, only occasionally on the ground. The male has a high pitched whistling call, and the female cackles like the related Egyptian goose. In South America the Orinoco population goose is a poorly known sheldgoose with a declining population and range distribution; the seasonal appearance of the goose in the region indicates that this is a migratory population as well as restricted to the dry season. WHALDENER ENDO (a1) (a2), TORBJØRN HAUGAASEN (a1) (a2) and CARLOS A. PERES (a3) https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270914000173P Orinoco