Information on Humane Canada Goose
Management
GeesePeace: www.geesepeace.org
Coalition to Prevent the Destruction of Canada Geese: www.canadageese.org
U.S. and Canadian Government
Information
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Migratory Bird
Management: http://migratorybirds.fws.gov
Canadian Wildlife Service, Migratory Birds Conservation
Division: www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/birds
International Goose Research Group: www.goose.org
National Wildlife Health Center: www.nwhc.usgs.gov
Publications
---. (1985). Manipulating feeding sites reduces damage
caused by Canada geese. Frontiers of Plant Science,
2-3.
Castelli, Paul M., & Sleggs, Shelia E. (2000). Efficacy
of border collies to control nuisance Canada geese.
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 28(2), 385-392.
Conover, Michael R. (1991). Herbivory by Canada geese: Diet
selection and effect on lawns. Ecological
Applications, 1, 2, 231-236.
Conover, Michael R., & Chasko, G. G. (1985). Nuisance
Canada goose problems in the eastern United States. Wildlife
Society Bulletin, 13, 228-233.
Conover, Michael R., & Kania, G. S. (1991).
Characteristics of feeding sites used by urban-suburban flocks
of Canada geese in Connecticut. Wildlife Society
Bulletin, 19, 36-38.
Converse, Kathryn, Wolcott, Mark, Docherty, Douglas, &
Cole, Rebecca. (2001). Screening for potential pathogens in
fecal material deposited by resident Canada geese in areas of
public utility. 315 (AIMS) 5003748 (SIS). National Wildlife
Health Center, Madison, WI. www.nwhc.usgs.gov.
Dolbeer, Richard. (2000). Birds and aircraft: Fighting for
airspace in crowded skies. Proceedings of the Nineteenth
Vertebrate Pest Conference. Eds. Terrell P. Salmon &
Charles A. Crabb, 37-43, Univ. of California, Davis.
Doncaster, Deborah, & Keller, Jeff. (2000). Habitat
Modification and Canada Geese: Techniques for mitigating
human/goose conflicts in urban and suburban environments.
Animal Alliance of Canada.
Hadidian, John. (2002). Resolving conflicts between people
and Canada geese: The need for comprehensive management
approaches. Proceedings of the 20th Vertebrate Pest
Conference. Eds. R. M. Timm & R. H. Schmidt, 175-179.
Univ. of California, Davis.
Hadidian, John, Childs, Michele, & Perry, Nancy. (1997).
The plight of the Canada goose: an unprotected protected
species. Wildlife Tracks, Summer, 1-4.
Hadidian, John, Childs, Michele, Perry, Nancy, & Lane,
Patricia. (2000). Resolving conflicts with Canada geese: An
animal welfare perspective. Proceedings of the 9th Eastern
Wildlife Damage Management Conference. Eds. Margaret C.
Brittingham, Jonathan Kays, & Rebecka McPeake, 293-299.
State College, Pennsylvania.: Penn State Univ.
Hazard, Holly, & Feld, David. (1999). GeesePeace: A
community achieves an acceptable balance with Canada geese.
Wildlife Tracks Summer, 1-4.
The Humane Society of the United States. Goose Tracks:
Status Report on Humane Canada Goose Management from The Humane
Society of the United States (biannual newsletter).
The Humane Society of the United States. Canada Geese:
Living in Harmony with Your Wild Neighbors (in press).
Lawson, Nancy. (2001). Calling a truce with the Canada
goose. Animal Sheltering, Nov.-Dec., 1-7.
Lowney, Martin S. (1995). Excluding non-migratory Canada
geese with overhead wire grids. Proceedings of the 6th
Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference, 85-88.
Smith, Arthur E., Craven, Scott R., & Curtis, Paul D.
(1999). Managing Canada Geese in Urban Environments.
Jack Berryman Institute, Publication 16, and Cornell Univ.
Cooperative Extension, Ithaca, NY. (This publication summarizes
a wide range of techniques but includes some that are not
humane.)
Whitford, Philip C. (2002). Shoreline characteristics of
urban lakes as a factor in nuisance Canada goose problems.
The Passenger Pigeon 64(4), 271-280.
