Canada Goose

Taxonomy

Order

Anseriformes

Family

Anatidae

Genus

Branta

eBird Code

cangoo

Subspecies (7)

• Branta canadensis canadensis

  breeds Labrador and Newfoundland; winters to Florida

• Branta canadensis fulva

  coastal southern Alaska to British Columbia; primarily resident

• Branta canadensis interior

  breeds northeastern Canada; winters to Florida and Louisiana

• Branta canadensis maxima

  formerly bred in Great Plains from south-central Manitoba and northern Minnesota southwards to eastern Kansas and northern Arkansas, and eastwards to northwestern Tennessee and western Kentucky; nearly extirpated but now a widely reestablished resident, and introduced to and widespread in western Europe and New Zealand

• Branta canadensis moffitti

  breeds northern Great Plains, Great Basin, and southern Canada; winters southward; introduced widely

• Branta canadensis occidentalis

  breeds southwestern Alaska (Prince William Sound to Copper River Delta); winters from the lower Colombia River valley southward to the Willamette Valley (northwestern Oregon)

• Branta canadensis parvipes

  breeds central Alaska to Canadian prairie provinces; winters southern USA