\n A Canada goose was spotted by Iain David Crawford on Sunday at Bodenham Gravel Pits.\n<\/p>\n
\n His find was uploaded to goingbirding.co.uk.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Canada goose, originally from North America, is known for its distinctive black head and neck, large white throat patch, and substantial size.\n<\/p>\n
\n They are now a common sight across most of the UK, having spread after being introduced about 300 years ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n They nest on park lakes, flooded gravel pits, and reservoirs.\n<\/p>\n
\n After the Second World War, their population spread extensively throughout the UK.\n<\/p>\n
\n While they form noisy flocks and can become a nuisance in parks and green spaces.\n<\/p>\n
\n Occasionally, wild Canada geese go astray and reach the UK from North America, but these are usually smaller subspecies found in northeast England and Scotland.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sightings of larger subspecies can be a challenge to confirm as wild, due to their resemblance to the resident feral population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Canada goose was spotted by Iain David Crawford on Sunday at Bodenham Gravel Pits. His find was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-662335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}