. Birds and nature in natural colors. . en to the sound so wild and high!Like a peal of broken bells,—Kling, kling, kling,—Far and high the wild geese cry, Spring! it is Spring! The loud, harsh and quite trumpetlike notes of this goose have given to itthe name Laughing Goose. But it also bears many other names. As it showsa special liking for low prairies, it is frequently called the Prairie Brant or of the coloration of its plumage it is often called Gray Brant, SpeckledBrant or Goose and Yellow-legged Goose. It bears several other popular names,but the ones already mentioned ar
. Birds and nature in natural colors. . en to the sound so wild and high!Like a peal of broken bells,—Kling, kling, kling,—Far and high the wild geese cry, Spring! it is Spring! The loud, harsh and quite trumpetlike notes of this goose have given to itthe name Laughing Goose. But it also bears many other names. As it showsa special liking for low prairies, it is frequently called the Prairie Brant or of the coloration of its plumage it is often called Gray Brant, SpeckledBrant or Goose and Yellow-legged Goose. It bears several other popular names,but the ones already mentioned are those more commonly used. During theirmigrations, they often fly so high that they appear as mere dots against theclouds or sky. They, however, spend most of their time upon the land, for it isthere that they obtain their food. When flying in large flocks this interestingspecies, like the Canada Goose and the Snow Goose, with which it is frequentlyassociated, flies in a wedge-shaped company led by one whose ringing call notes 580. are constantly uttered. The flight of these birds is beautiful, but appears to bemuch less rapid than it really is because of their large size and the height atwhich they were moving. The flesh of the White-fronted Goose is very highlyesteemed, and by many epicures it is considered much more delicious than theflesh of any of the other geese. The geese are vegetarians and much more terrestrial than are the ducks, forthey frequent the land in order to feed upon tender herbage. The White-frontedGoose during its migrations and in its winter home, frequents prairies and fieldswhere it feeds upon the tender blades of grass and to some extent, at least, uponthe green blades of winter wheat. It will also glean the scattered grains of cornin corn fields. In California, where it is very abundant in winter, it is said to bevery destructive to the growing wheat crop and that, in some localities, thefarmers employ men to kill them or drive them from the fiel
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