* Swans, Geese, and Ducks of Canada

Canada Geese on Spokane River, Washington

Canada Geese in flight

Approximately 130, 000 Pacific Black Brant, 62, 000 Emperor Geese, 50, 000 Taverner's Canada Geese, 300, 000 ducks, and 80, 000 shore birds stop over in the Izembek area during migration and as many as 50, 000 Steller's Eiders find winter grounds there.

A flock of Canada Geese

The open water attracts large numbers of migrating Giant Canada Geese

Canada Geese cross street in Little Silver, New Jersey

Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge totaling 2, 492 acres, and home to many Dusky Canada Geese, which nest almost exclusively in the Willamette Valley.

Semi-aquatic species such as muskrat, ducks, Canada Geese and kingfishers are also common.

Tourists flock to the area every year to see the migration of the Canada Geese.

The first of these was Goose Creek, named for the bayou of the same name where Canada Geese wintered and whose name is still reflected in the area's Goose Creek CISD, whose establishment dates back to before 1850.

The reservoirs attract Mallards, and also Teal, Pochard, Common Sandpipers, Black-headed Gulls and Canada Geese.

In a similar project, orphaned Canada Geese were trained to their normal migration route by the Canadian ultralight enthusiast Bill Lishman, as shown in the fact-based movie drama Fly Away Home.

Snow Geese often travel and feed alongside Greater White-fronted Geese ; in contrast, the two tend to avoid travelling and feeding alongside Canada Geese, which are often heavier birds.

Mallards, Canada Geese and Ring-billed gulls are year-round residents, using both the water and the nearby lawns and ballfields.

Occasionally, a wild bird will appear in the Northeastern United States or Canada, but care must be taken to separate out wild birds from escaped individuals, as Barnacle Geese are popular waterfowl with collectors.

There are seven subspecies of this bird, of varying sizes and plumage details, but all are recognizable as Canada Geese.

The Great Lakes region maintains a very large population of Canada Geese.

Due in part to the interbreeding of various migratory subspecies with the introduced non-migratory Giant subspecies, Canada Geese are frequently a year-around feature of such urban environments.

Contrary to its normal migration routine, large flocks of Canada Geese have established permanent residence in Esquimalt, British Columbia, on Chesapeake Bay, in Virginia's James River regions, and in the Triangle area of North Carolina ( Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill ), and nearby Hillsborough.

Some Canada Geese have taken up permanent residence as far south as Florida, in places such as retention ponds in apartment complexes.

Canada Geese have reached northern Europe naturally, as has been proved by ringing recoveries.

Some of these churches are known as Anglican, such as the Anglican Church of Canada, due to their historical link to England ( Ecclesia Anglicana means " English Church ").

" Other prestigious architectural awards are the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, the Alvar Aalto Medal ( Finland ), the Carlsberg Architecture Prize ( Denmark ), and the Governor General's Awards ( Canada ).

Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by national professional associations such as the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ), the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ), the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ( RAIC ) and the Institute of Architects Bangladesh ( IAB ).

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

For the most part American vocabulary, phonology and syntax are used, to various extents, in Canada ; therefore many prefer to refer to North American English rather than American English.

This, he claimed, discriminated against non-Anglicans, including Catholics, who are the largest faith group in Canada.

While administrative decision-making bodies are often controlled by larger governmental units, their decisions could be reviewed by a court of general jurisdiction under some principle of judicial review based upon due process ( United States ) or fundamental justice ( Canada ).

Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the mid-autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full-moon harvest festival of " tabernacles " ( huts wherein the harvest was processed and which later gained religious significance ).

Eastern Canada and New England are famous for their autumnal foliage, and this attracts major tourism ( worth billions of U. S. dollars ) for the regions.

The cities of Kamloops and Penticton, and rural towns of Oliver, and Osoyoos have some of the warmest and longest summer climates in Canada, although their temperature ranges are exceeded by the warmer Fraser Canyon towns of Lillooet and Lytton, where shade temperatures on summer afternoons often surpass but with very low humidity.

A few Southern Interior valleys have short cold winters with infrequent heavy snow, while those in the Cariboo, the southern part of the Central Interior, are colder because of their altitude and latitude, but without the intensity or duration experienced at similar latitudes elsewhere in Canada.

The annual mean temperature in the most populated areas of the province are above, the mildest anywhere in Canada.

There are 141 ecological Reserves, 35 provincial marine parks, 7 Provincial Heritage Sites, 6 National Historic Sites of Canada, 4 National Parks and 3 National Park Reserves.

Exports of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Canada are worth about US $ 5. 31 million per year, while exports of Canada to Bosnia and Herzegovina value about US $ 5. 34 million per year.

A complete map was published in 2009 ( Flood, et al., 2009 ) using these previous results with high quality mapping obtained in 2006 ( by researchers at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada who are project partners in this study.

In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball ( MLB ) teams are divided into the National League ( NL ) and American League ( AL ), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central.

In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ( ELCIC ), the largest Lutheran Church bodies in the United States and Canada respectively and roughly based on the Nordic Lutheran state churches ( similar to that of the Church of England ), bishops are elected by Synod Assemblies, consisting of both lay members and clergy, for a term of 6 years, which can be renewed, depending upon the local synod's " constitution " ( which is mirrored on either the ELCA or ELCIC's national constitution ).

In Portugal and Canada they are also known as X-Acto ( yet another genericised trademark ).

Speakers of modern Baltic languages are generally concentrated within the borders of Lithuania and Latvia, and in emigrant communities in the United States, Canada, Australia and states of the former Soviet Union.

Its headquarters are in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, a federal agency, is responsible for overseeing that bankruptcies are administered in a fair and orderly manner by all licensed Trustees in Canada.

Trustees in bankruptcy, 1041 individuals licensed to administer insolvencies, bankruptcy and proposal estates and are governed by the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act of Canada.

But, particularly in the United States and Canada, the racial or ethnic classification also refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors, including albinos, if they are believed by others to have African ancestry, or to exhibit cultural traits associated with being " African-American ".