Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)

Species Account

Ordered chronologically (not necessarily by HRBP number)

HRBP 5644. Canada Goose (Branta canadensis occidentalis or parvipes). BPBM 7079 collected Pa'alau Flats, Moloka'i, Dec 1902. Photo © Peter Pyle
HRBP 5645. Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii minima), top and Canada Goose (Branta canadensis occidentalis or parvipes), bottom. BPBM 145464 and 7079 collected O'ahu and Moloka'i, respectively. Photo © Peter Pyle
HRBP 5646. Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii minima), top and Canada Goose (Branta canadensis occidentalis or parvipes), bottom. BPBM 145464 and 7079 collected O'ahu and Moloka'i, respectively. Photo © Peter Pyle
HRBP 0392. Canada Goose (Branta canadensis parvipes). Mokapu, O'ahu, 1 Nov 1981. © Robert J. Shallenberger
HRBP 0393. Canada Goose (Branta canadensis parvipes). Mokapu, O'ahu, 1 Nov 1981. © Robert J. Shallenberger
HRBP 0394. Canada Goose (Branta canadensis parvipes), right, with Cackling Goose. Honouliuli NWR, O'ahu, 1 Nov 1981. © Robert J. Shallenberger
HRBP 0690. Canada Goose (Branta canadensis parvipes), right, with Cackling and Greater White-fronted geese. Honouliuli NWR, O'ahu, 1 Feb 1982. © Peter V. Donaldson
HRBP 0691. Canada Goose (Branta canadensis), center, with Cackling and Greater White-fronted geese. Honouliuli NWR, O'ahu, 1 Feb 1982. © Peter V. Donaldson
HRBP 0695. Canada Goose (Branta canadensis), center, with two Cackling Geese. Honouliuli NWR, O'ahu, 1 Feb 1982. © Peter V. Donaldson
HRBP 5017. Canada Geese (Branta canadensis moffitti), part of a flock of introduced birds. Waiakea Pond, Hawai'i Island, 4 Aug 2003. © Reginald David
HRBP 5190. Canada Goose (Branta canadensis parvipes), right, with Cackling Goose (B.h. taverneri). Hawaii Kai, O'ahu, 17 Jan 2005. © Eric VanderWerf
HRBP 5291. Canda Geese (Branta canadensis moffitti), upper left and adjacent bird, with Cackling Geese. Waiakea Pond, Hawai'i Island, 17 Mar 2006. © George Armistead
     
HRBP 5815. Canda Goose (Branta canadensis moffitti). Waiakea Pond, Hawai'i Island, 8 Apr 2007. © Michael Walther
     
Photographs and images contributed to Hawaii Rare Bird Photograph (HRBP) file, B. P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu and part of The Birds of the Hawaiian Islands: Occurrence, History, Distribution, and Status by Robert L. Pyle and Peter Pyle. See Introduction for more information.