Many Wild Birds Expect Food When Visitors Go To Lake Including Wild Goose Taking Food From Hand Of Chinaman.

Any new visitor to a lake that has become a nesting ground, or stopover, for many different kinds of water birds, including wild geese and wild ducks, soon discovers that the wild birds are expecting food from them. A Chinaman visiting the lake for the first time was soon welcomed by a black and white wild goose, and the goose was soon rewarded by birdfood that the man held out in his hand. For the visitor, this close encounter with a wild goose was a totally new experience, but for the wild goose it was a custom that it had eagerly accepted. As soon as a wild goose, a wild duck, or a wild swan is seen being fed by visitors, the visitor becomes a center of attraction for other wild birds nearby.

In some parts of the area around the lake, the feeding of wild birds is not encouraged. There is a special area surrounded by a low wall, at the side of the lake, that is recognised as a feeding spot. This lakeside enclosure usually has quite a number of wild birds such as geese and ducks, and sometimes even pigeons, keeping a watchful eye open for the first signs of bird food being offered to them.

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*** The Greylag Goose (also spelled Graylag in the United States), Anser anser, is a bird with a wide range in the Old World. It is the type species of the genus Anser. It was in pre-Linnean times known as the Wild Goose ("Anser ferus"). This species is the ancestor of domesticated geese in Europe and North America. Flocks of feral birds derived from domesticated birds are widespread.The Greylag Goose is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
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