Talk:Greylag Goose
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- but the practice of plucking geese alive, continued for so many centuries, has not improbably also helped to perpetuate this variation, for it is well known to many bird-keepers that a white feather is often produced in place of one of the natural colour that has been pulled out.
Which I presume is a 1911 theory of inheritance - pluck a goose, the feathers will grow back white, and the goslings will inherit that colouring... -- sannse (talk) 09:32, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I think I am seeing these Geese in Northern California, but no mention is made of their presence in America...??? --Cshay 22:51, 12 May 2005 (UTC)