[PaulHoule]

I cannot understand why the Canada Goose is protected under federal law. There are so many in Stewart Park that I think about taking one down with a net or a bolo but (1) I could get in trouble and (2) I find commercial goose meat to be disgusting (when they talk about eating a goose in a Dickens novel I gag) and can't imagine a wild goose is palatable at all.

(I do have reports though that the eggs are great, I think commercial goose eggs make the best Pirogi, and that someone was able to take two eggs from a nest year after year and even though they hissed bitterly the same pair would come back again year after year.)

[opwieurposiu]

The Canada Goose is protected under federal law in the United States primarily due to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.

This was a treaty between Canada and USA, enacted to prevent more extinctions due to hunting, as happened to the passenger pigeon.

You can hunt them in the fall in most states, but you can't hunt the most annoying ones that live inside city limits year round. They do not taste great, good for dog food though.