How our feathered neighbors are comfortable living in such populated areas [Video]

RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION. WELL, GEESE ARE OUR FEATHERED NEIGHBORS AND THEY DON’T SEEM TO BE FAZED BY MUCH. NOW YOU MAY SPOT THEM ALONG A BUSY HIGHWAY AT YOUR NEIGHBOR PARK, NEIGHBORING PARK, OR OUTSIDE OF YOUR HOME. BUT HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW THEY’RE SO CALM IN THESE CONDITIONS? WVTM THIRTEEN’S EMMA OWEN HELPS US GET THE ANSWER. SO HOW IS IT THAT GEESE CAN COMFORTABLY LIVE IN SUCH POPULATED AREAS? I TOOK THIS QUESTION TO ALAN YESTER, ZOOLOGICAL MANAGER OF THE BIRD DEPARTMENT AT THE BIRMINGHAM ZOO, TO LEARN HOW THEY THRIVE ALONGSIDE HUMANS. HE FIRST EXPLAINED THEIR HISTORY. A LOT OF THE GEESE THAT YOU SEE YEAR ROUND IN ALABAMA ARE A SUBSPECIES OF THE CANADA GOOSE, CALLED THE GIANT CANADA GOOSE. BY ABOUT THE EARLY 1900S, YESTER SAYS, IT WAS THOUGHT THE SUBSPECIES WAS EXTINCT BECAUSE OF OVERHUNTING AND PEOPLE COLLECTING THE EGGS. THEN, IN 1960, …