24-Aug-2023 Theme: 'Goose'

(1) What is the large, grey goose species which occupies islands in the Bass Strait and parts of the southern coastal Australia?

Answer: Cape Barren Goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae).

(2) And what large, black and white goose is now found mainly in the northern Australia and southern PNG, but was once widespread in wetland areas across the continent?

Answer: Magpie Goose (Anseranas semipalmata).

(3) What northern hemisphere goose was deliberately introduced to New Zealand in 1905, where it has become naturalised, and has recently also been reported in small numbers in Australia?

Answer: Canada goose (Branta canadensis).

(4) What was Aunt Rhody saving the old grey goose for?

Answer: To make a feather bed.

(5) What was the Spruce Goose?

Answer: A giant prototype flying boat aircraft, built for the US airforce by the Hughes corporation in the 1940s.

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