A pair of Canada Geese claimed the Charlo osprey nest and made their nest there. Two of their three eggs hatched, and the two goslings took their "leap of faith" and landed safely on the ground below. Osprey Notes ospreynotes.com/wp/
A pair of Canada geese nested every year on top of an old railroad pier (tracks long gone) in the Potomac River near Williamsport, MD. Those goslings would make a similar leap into the river once hatched. I haven't been in the area during nesting season for some time. Perhaps those birds still nest there each spring.
May say the parents are calling the goslings, however the hatchlings aren't very old and they understand language or sounds and know to leap? Fascinating. Is it all instinct? Is it herd mentality? Still Fascinating.
Their little wings do provide some resistance, which definitely slows down their descent. Similar to air brakes and flaps on a plane. I would also guess that it provides some balance, keeping them up right
It does work. The gosling body is shaped as the main flying surface. The wings control the direction of flight. Same arrangement is on ships. The rudders are tiny but have huge effect.
Years (and years and years) ago when I took freshman Biology at U. Of Colorado, we each got a chick to take home (to the dorm no less) to learn how they imprint. My chick followed me everywhere. I wonder if the imprinting process is what drives these chicks to just Geronimo over the side. It’s just amazing they can just carry on once they hit the ground.
Yes, they will follow their parents everywhere. Also a gosling is so light and squishy that some goose species nest in mountains and the chick have to jump hundred of meters after being born to follow their parents. They are basically immune to fall damage lol
Yeah, but I've seen a video where 3 jumped all crashed into the cliff (normal) 2 survived the fall, 1 was eaten by a crow so only 1 survived.@@Fankine78
I've heard that ducklings, goslings, cygnets and chicks (or any species) their body and bones are soft so when they fall from that height they didn't broke any unlike adults. So, this is basically a normal and natural thing. Is like when your parents told and taught you to be brave to slide or jump and everything will be alright :)
They have to leave shortly after hatching as they need to eat and the parents don't bring food back to the nest like high nesting birds do. Highly unusual for these geese to nest in a high location.
This is not "brave" which is anthropomorphizing nature. It's normal behaviour goslings, ducklings jump big heights from clifs and trees when leaving the nest.
Indeed. Even in humans the term often doesn't make sense. The humans who are called brave for doing something, that act is normal for them. They are used to that behavior, and the brave label comes from someone who is afraid and projects that the other person must also be afraid, but somehow does the brave act anyway.
LOL. I wonder, will the parents make a new nest next to a pond now ? These chicks can't get back to the high nest- no way, till they have full feathers.
Hahah, I don't think that the first gosling was REALLY trying to jump down that time, it looked like he was just trying to jump over the log and misjudged his leap, being born only a couple of hours or so ago. :p He went over very awkwardly, the second gosling did it proper.
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I have never seen a goose land on an aerial nest. How can a large goose like that land on such a small target? Also, the goslings are much larger than the eggs, indicating that they have been growing since hatching. But what were they eating? There is no food source in the nest and I have never seen a Canada Goose harvest food and take it to a gosling. This video is interesting but makes me curious.
Their fluffy feathers make them look larger and all hatched chicks still have some of their ‘growing’ egg yolk left so they can survive for a few days without any other food. Sorry I dont know the correct terminology.
At first I wondered why the little gosling's had the green color to them but then it dawned on me that when they jump they have to kind of blend in with the grass to guard against predators.
I find it interesting that geese would nest high up on such a small platform in the first place, when you consider how large a goose is, and their technique when landing on say water, and even fields, they not good at hovering?
Geese can do a LOT higher. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H1S6UCX4RAA.html And they do it to avoid predation. For Arctic Geese, Polar bears can wipe out all the eggs from an entire land based colony. These chicks make it to birth which is a huge advance on that! Then approx 50% survive the first month from there.
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My God!! So brave two little babies!!! Good job babies!! There is still one egg left in the nest..? I think the mother goose will be back... Thank you for the beautiful video!! 👍👍
This explains why young humans climb and fall out of windows. The jump gene was present before the evolutionary split between proto-humans and proto-goose
Aren't geese supposed to be in a pond or river? Doesn't seem they would last very long out on open ground like that with foxes, coyotes and so on about.
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