It's inclusive, and full of strange detail, such as the carving in Beverley Minster of a fox being hanged by geese (explained as "a question of not adopting any one emotion, or manner, too seriously or too long").
Lined up in body suits and rubberised helmets they resembled for a moment a clutch of Victorian bathing ladies about to dip a toe in waters still populated at the edges by geese, coots and moorhens.
Mr. Langewiesche doesn't dispute the events of Jan . 15 , 2009when US Airways Flight 1549 successfully ditched on the Hudson River after its engines were knocked out by geese strikes shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia.
Over the past 23 years, bird strikes have forced an average of one plane a day to land prematurely, according to the F.A.A. Since US Airways Flight 1549 went down in the Hudson River after its engines were disabled by geese, the Agriculture Department has been working to reduce the number of geese near airports nationwide.
The mark of the patriotic citizen is less pride in his or her country than shame when it betrays itself: James Joyce's "centre of paralysis"; Hugh MacDiarmid's fear that to stay in Scotland meant, quoting Soren Kierkegaard, "being trampled to death by geese"; the perversion of the past in Orwell's 1984.
The models simulated shifts in land-use, rice and cattle production, farm profitability, and use of habitat by geese.
In 1638, an Anglican Bishop named Francis Godwin wrote The Man in the Moone about a man who visited the moon in a machine powered by geese.
In the wetter areas preferentially used by geese the vegetation now consists predominantly of mosses.
The large amount of feces produced by geese congregating around surface water bodies is a source of environmental contamination and, potentially, zoonotic pathogens (4– 7).
However, on a smaller scale, ecosystem degradation caused by grubbing by geese is also evident on Spitsbergen, linked to the increase in pink-footed geese (Anser brachyrhynchus) in the area (Speed et al. 2009).
We focussed our research on two locations, Solvatnet and Thiisbukta, which are on either side of Ny-Ålesund and highly favoured by geese; both locations represent wet tundra with similar ecosystem characteristics and goose utilisation levels.
