Gardening and Landscaping

[Wildbilly]

That's a crappy story,

some bird people tracked down some yahoos in the St. Louis area that in the 70's cross bred several breeds of geese so they would hang around their golf course ponds (hazards)year around. The used Canadas as one of the breeds and they look like Canadas to me and others, but birdie people can tell. edit: they're referred to as 'urban geese'.

One of my stores in Centerville had two large glass doors that the geese would admire themselves in and would attack store employees when they tried to open up in the morning. They's also attacked customers, but the worst part was they'd lay gigundus poop bombs all over in front of the entrance.

In N. Michigan some idiots around the lakes fed the Mallards year around and kept a large population from ever migrating. Worse, you'd get an awful "duck itch" from swimming if you had a neighbor feeding them all summer.