It's spring. That means longer days, warmer weather, and for Canada Geese, it's nesting season.
The Canada Geese that have taken up residence at the University of Waterloo are famous, in part because they don't hesistate to defend their nesting areas from perceived intruders.
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Alex Harris is no stranger to hissing, flapping, angry geese. Harris is the man behind the University of Waterloo's Geese Police and along with Molson, a border collie-golden retriever cross, patrols the university campus twice a day along a five-kilometre path. Canada Geese are notorious at the university because the large number of people and buildings offers protection from natural predators, allowing the geese to thrive.
The daily patrols are part of Harris' undergraduate thesis project for his Geography and Environmental Management Honours degree. By summer, Harris wants to have an accurate picture of how Molson affects geese nesting habits along the designated path, in order to "determine exactly how bad the problem is and how long it will take to fix it and balance the ecosystem out," he writes on his website.
The UW Geese Police MissionMy mission is to administrate and oversee the management of Canada Geese (Branta canadensis), which have become a nuisance and major prob...
But for many on campus, a reduction in geese numbers can't come soon enough. Aside from the large amounts of fecal matter the geese produce daily (between .5 and 3 pounds per goose, as Harris notes on his website), the number one issue with the geese how aggressive they become while nesting.
The university's bookstore sees an opportunity here - it's started selling T-shirts.
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This is just one of the many UW geese videos posted to YouTube (warning: foul language).
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It's not clear if this video is from UWaterloo, but it shows just how aggressive geese can be when defending a nesting site.
Aggressive Goose Attacks Manswaglevels
On social sharing site Reddit, this photo sparked a thread dedicated to the University of Waterloo and geese.
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I walked through there an hour ago but came from the other direction. There was a sign on the exit door that warned me of the nesting goose. The second I walked through the door this bird was in attack position, fifty feet away and slowly advancing. "It's okay I'm just passing through," I told myself. The goose and I are walking toward each other and I start to sweat. When we're ten feet away I stop. She doesn't. In a hissing fury she chases me away. I got away unharmed but I'm not gonna make that mistake again. popularbelief
if it hisses, hiss back, or make a loud noise. almost guaranteed to scare them off.GoldPlz
I thought they have wing spans of 2 meters? I am so scared of them, I usually walk far far away from them. iheartpotatoes
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Another Reddit user posted an ad to Craiglist about losing some Blu Ray movies in a goose attack and asked if anyone had seen the movies.
LOST Criterion Blu RaysLost 2 Criterion Blu Ray discs: Rashomon & The Royal Tenenbaums -- brand new in shrink wrap I had them in my jacket pocket, was walking N...
The ad was reposted to Reddit, and updated with a happy ending:
So you were basically mugged by geese. I'll light a candle for those blu rays. iamfriendly
got the movies back, now that yesterdays snow has melted. I was at work but my dad went for a walk on the tracks, opened an umbrella to keep the goose at bay (but honking & hissing at him)... the movies were on the slope going down from the tracks, right around where the altercation took place.voxtvot
To help students navigate the avian threat, the University of Waterloo's Student Success Office has created an interactive map and is asking people to send in sighting locations and photos to help document nest locations using the hashtag #goosewatch on Twitter.
Our friends @uwaterloolife created an interactive map to chart campus goose attacks! #GooseWatch #TakeBackTheHonk http://ow.ly/jTJ1fUniversity Waterloo
only at @uWaterloo would this exist. #GooseWatch http://pic.twitter.com/alZ9xVdeAlAmy Chan
#GooseWatch by DC-C2 walkway but can't seem to find the geese or nest...? http://pic.twitter.com/8IHG5BXZ7XEna
i'm already paranoid about the geese and now there's a map + signs around campus telling you where to watch out for attacks? #goosewatchShobi Jeya
@uwaterloolife #GooseWatch #TakeBackTheHonk There's one right outside WEEF lab, the tiny slit between E2 and CPH.Eli
LOOL #goosewatch...only at UWVishaal Panchhi
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