What is the Hawaiian goose?

Hawaii Husa ( Branta Sandvicensis ), or NES, is a bird with a natural habitat limited to the Hawaii, Kauai and Maui. It is a state bird in Hawaii and the most precious type of goose in the world. Hawaiian goose is a descendant of Canadian goose, which is assumed that she moved to Hawaii shortly after the islands were created about 500,000 years ago.

Hawaiian goose with an average size at about 16 inches (41 cm). Males weigh from £ 3.74 to £ 6.7 (£ 1,695-3.05), while women are slightly smaller at £ 3.36 to £ 5.6 (£ 1,525-2.56). Both sexes have black accounts and legs, black head, and a black and white striped neck. The Hawaiian name for goose, is onomatopoeia is his call.

Hawaiian geese have the longest reproductive period of any kind of goose that lasts from August to April. A goose friend on Earth and women builds her nests to keep from one to five eggs. The Keeps man watches while his friend incubate eggs for about a month. Gosliners have similar inBetween adults and are forecutory, which means that they can move and feed independently shortly after birth. But they live with their parents' first year of their lives.

Hawaiian goose inhabits coastal dunes, pastures, shrubs and lava plains. His legs are upholstered, with less straps than other goose breeds, making it easier to walk on lava plains. It also lives in some habitats created by man, such as golf courses. The bird is herbivorous, ends with seeds, leaves, flowers and fruit of various plants. It will easily feed from the hand of man.

The natural proportion of Hawaiian goose probably contributed to its close extinction of the 20th century, because the bird was so easy to hunt. Europeans also introduced a series of Mongoose and Cat on the islands. Although Hawaiian goose species were exhausted by 30 individuals by 1952, has been successfully bred in captivity since thenDy. In 2004, 800 Hawaiian geese were estimated in the wild, except for 1,000 V capture.