Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories such as Struwwelpeter (" Shockheaded Peter "); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill and consumed by a flock of geese.

At the same time, ducks, geese, and shrimp are rare in comparison to southern China due to the arid climate of northern China.

Among the most popular and most common are the Bratwurst ( fry-sausage ), usually made of ground pork and spices, the Wiener ( Viennese ), which may be pork or pork / beef and is smoked and fully cooked in a water bath, and Blutwurst ( blood sausage ) or Schwarzwurst ( black sausage ) made from blood ( often of pigs or geese ).

In his autobiographical essay, published in 1973 in Les Prix Nobel ( winners of the prizes are requested to provide such essays ), Lorenz credits his career to his parents, who " were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals ," and to his childhood encounter with Selma Lagerlof's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, which filled him with a great enthusiasm about wild geese.

In English, there are word form pairs like ox / oxen, goose / geese, and sheep / sheep, where the difference between the singular and the plural is signaled in a way that departs from the regular pattern, or is not signaled at all.

These most typically are members of the superorder Galloanserae ( fowl ), especially the order Galliformes ( which includes chickens, quails and turkeys ) and the family Anatidae ( in order Anseriformes ), commonly known as " waterfowl " ( e. g. domestic ducks, domestic geese and ecterim ).

The last two are the most probable sources for Boccaccio because in them the father refers to the women as " geese ," whereas in the earlier versions he calls them " demons " who tempt the souls of men.

The ducks are divided among several subfamilies in the Anatidae family ; they do not represent a monophyletic group ( the group of all descendants of a single common ancestral species ) but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered ducks.

Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than the swans and geese, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water.

The overall body plan of ducks is elongated and broad, and the ducks are also relatively long-necked, albeit not as long-necked as the geese and swans.

For instance, there has been dispute about whether flamingos are more closely related to the storks and their relatives, or to ducks, geese and their relatives.

More distantly related members of the Anatidae family are swans, most of which are larger than true geese, and ducks, which are smaller.

The collective noun for group of geese on the ground is a gaggle ; when in flight, they are called a skein, a team or a wedge ; when flying close together, they are called a plump.

There are three living genera of true geese: Anser, grey geese, including the domesticated goose and the Swan Goose ; Chen, white geese ( often included in Anser ); and Branta, black geese, such as the Canada goose.

Two genera of " geese " are only tentatively placed in the Anserinae ; they may belong to the shelducks or form a subfamily on their own: Cereopsis, the Cape Barren Goose, and Cnemiornis, the prehistoric New Zealand Goose.

Fossils of true geese are hard to assign to genus ; all that can be said is that their fossil record, particularly in North America, is dense and comprehensively documents many different species of true geese that have been around since about 10 million years ago in the Miocene.

Paired geese are more dominant and feed more, two factors that result in more young.

The area is a summering place for a number of migratory birds including Brent geese, Eurasian Wigeons, and the pintails of California.

Along the northern coast of the refuge, the barrier islands, coastal lagoons, salt marshes, and river deltas of the Arctic coastal tundra provide habitat for migratory waterbirds including sea ducks, geese, swans, and shorebirds.

It is a refuge for migratory birds from Canada, the U. S. and other regions of Mexico, including the red-tailed falcon, the Harris falcon, wild ducks, geese, and others.

As of 2005, migratory birds began to make a comeback at the park with the eradication and relocation of introduced species such as geese and ducks which were aggressive to other species.

It is a migratory stop-off point for thousands of ducks, geese, swans and waders.

Like most geese, the Canada Goose is naturally migratory with the wintering range being most of the United States.

The species is frequently found on golf courses, parking lots and urban parks, which would have previously hosted only migratory geese on rare occasions.

It has become nationally famous because of the grand sight of many uncommon migratory birds such as Baikal teals, wild ducks, mallards, wild geese, herring gulls, black head gulls, black head Kentish plovers, etc., and approximately 500, 000 winter migrant birds of 40 types visit between mid-October and March.

It also is home for nearly 240 species of birds including ducks, geese, wading birds, and other assorted migratory birds.

They may be attached to migratory birds ( geese, swans, cranes, penguins etc.

* The extended formations ( V formation ) or " skeins " in which many migratory birds ( especially geese ) fly enable the birds ( except, of course, the bird at the front ) to take advantage of one another's slipstream.

The delta of the Kuban River and its estuaries are a popular resting ground for various migratory birds, especially waterfowl such as wild geese, ducks, cormorants, pelicans, swans and gray herons.

Most of them are migratory and stop on the island either for rest or nesting, such as swans, geese, ducks, lake seagulls, sterna, but there are also more stationary birds like sparrow, siskin, chaffinch, skylark, jackdaw and crow.

Furthermore, seasonal reversal in the flow of rivers can potentially rob the rich nutrients that thrive in various tidal flats and coastal marshes, affecting millions of migratory birds such as waterfowls, Canadian geese, and various inland birds that use the coastlines of both the James and Hudson Bays during their spring and fall migrations.

Shiawassee NWR has been designated as a U. S. Important Bird Area by the American Birding Association because of the genuinely migratory James Bay flocks of Canada geese that utilize the wetland annually.

On the Atlantic migratory flyway, the area at the time had a large wild geese population.

The lough is also famous for its wildlife-watching ( dolphins, porpoise, sea birds, migratory geese and swans ) and diving on the numerous ship wrecks, including the SS Laurentic sunk by a German mine ( possible torpedo ), which went down with 3, 211 ingots of gold of which 3, 191 were recovered.

From April through October, natives hunted migratory birds and their eggs: Canada geese, brant, mourning doves and others.

Like most geese, it is naturally migratory, the wintering range being most of the U. S., and locally in western Canada and northern Mexico.

The name has also been adopted by the birdwatching community to describe the familiar V-shaped formations of flights of geese, ducks and other migratory birds, though this more symmetric formation is more strictly defined as a V formation.

The Refuge was established in 1943 to provide habitat for migratory birds, primarily snow geese.

The ponds and lakes of the region are lay-over points for migratory cranes, geese, and many species of ducks.

It is an access point for animal watching, with many opportunities to view moose, woodland caribou, timber wolf, black bear, game birds, bald eagles, song birds, and migratory birds such as ducks and geese.

A place for quite high concentration of geese and other migratory birds.