Goose Feathers
by Nava Thompson
Title
Goose Feathers
Artist
Nava Thompson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A photo taken by Nava Thompson of a goose after the bath at Bella Vista Lake in NW Arkansas.................(contest winner).The word goose is a direct descendent of Proto-Indo-European root, *ghans-. In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandres (becoming Modern English goose, geese, and gander, respectively), New High German Gans, G�e, and Ganter, and Old Norse gās. This term also gave Lithuanian �ąs� Irish g�goose, from Old Irish g�s), Latin anser, Greek χήν/khēn, Albanian gat�heron), Sanskrit hamsa and hamsi, Finnish hanhi, Avestan zāō, Polish gęś, Russian гусь, Czech husa, and Persian ghāz.....................The term goose applies to the female in particular while gander applies to the male in particular. Young birds before fledging are called goslings................................ The collective noun for group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; when in flight, they are called a skein, a team or a wedge; when flying close together, they are called a plump.........................Canada Geese on Spokane River, WashingtonThere are three living genera of true geese: Anser, grey geese, including the domesticated goose and the Swan Goose; Chen, white geese (often included in Anser); and Branta, black geese, such as the Canada goose....................Two genera of "geese" are only tentatively placed in the Anserinae; they may belong to the shelducks or form a subfamily on their own: Cereopsis, the Cape Barren Goose, and Cnemiornis, the prehistoric New Zealand Goose.....Either these or, more probably, the goose-like Coscoroba Swan is the closest living relative of the true geese.
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October 21st, 2013
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Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the feature archive discussion. There are many other discussions in the group where you can promote your art even further more.
Shoal Hollingsworth
Wonderful work. Thank you for submitting your image to the Ducks, Geese and Swans Only Group where the image is now featured on the home page. Feel free to post this in the Featured archive in the group discussion page section L/F
Jennifer White
Congratulations your wonderful photo has been featured in the Ozarks Photo Art Collection Group. You are invited to post your featured image in the featured image discussion thread as a permanent place to continue to get exposure even after the image is no longer on the Home Page.
Taphath Foose
Beautiful work, Nava!!! CONGRATULATIONS, your work is featured in "All about Birds"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" discussion thread and any other thread that is fitting!! 😊
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Feel free to place your featured image in the Features Archive and any Genre specific Archive l/f/p
Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Nava – your square format nature image has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2022 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
Morris Finkelstein
Beautiful close up photograph of a goose with a great pose, Nava! Congratulations on your Third Place Finish in the Ducks Geese And Swans Only contest! F/L
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