how do you tell the difference between male and female geese?
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Listening to their calls may provide a clue; the male has a slower, low-pitched honk and the female makes a "hink" noise, higher-pitched and faster than the male's. If you come across geese in a nesting situation, the goose on the nest will be the female, tending to her eggs.
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The easiest way to tell if your Pekin duck is a male or female is by its quack. Girls have a loud honk, and boys have a quieter quack. Male ducks also have a drake feather, which is a curled feather at the end of the tail.
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Appearance wise there can be very subtle differences between males and females. Generally, the males will have brighter colouration, be slightly larger, more boisterous and sit taller when on the perch. Females eyes tend to sit higher on their head lining up above the beak and males' eyes will be in line with the beak.
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The back feathers of the male are very pale brown or yellowish with areas of light gray and white. Females have brown and darker gray back feathers. The tail feathers of the males are pale buff or white with light gray. Females are brown with darker gray or black barring.
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A goose (plural geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae. ... The term "goose" is more properly used for a female bird, while "gander" refers specifically to a male one. Young birds before fledging are called goslings.
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The undersides of a male's wings become dark, while a female's remain light. Other subtle differences between the male and female African grey include a more slender neck and narrower head in the female, and a rounded eye patch. The male eye patch becomes somewhat pointed behind the eye.
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How do you tell the difference between a male and a female kingfisher? ... The key to telling the difference between a male and female kingfisher is the beak colour. The males beak is all black, the female has a pinky orange tinge to the lower part of the beak.
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The differences between males and females include the size of the comb and wattles, the size of the spurs (in older birds), and the characteristics of the hackle and cape feathers. ... In addition, males have sickle feathers in their tails and hackle feathers on their backs, and females do not.
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Distinguishing between the two sexes of greater spotted woodpeckers is straightforward since the male has a red patch on the back of his head whereas the female's head is simply black and white. Both male and female great spotted woodpeckers have a bright red underside at the base of the tail.
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The easiest way to determine the sex of an adolescent chicken is by examining the feathers on the bird's neck. A female chicken has rounded feathers, and a male has pointed feathers. It is simple to check these feathers.
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Unlike most mammals, female birds have two different sex chromosomes (ZW), while males have two of the same kind (ZZ). If the female has the mutation, she will be white as a cygnet and will moult into an adult white plumage directly. A male needs to have two mutated forms of the gene to be a Polish swan.
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Male pigeons are usually larger than females. ... Male pigeons “bow and scrape,” bowing their heads, while scraping their tail feathers along the ground. Watch a pair of pigeons mate. As with most animals, the male pigeon will position himself on top of the female, making it easy to distinguish the two sexes.
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Color Differences The most obvious difference between male and female Indian peafowl is their coloration. Males are usually an iridescent shade of bright blue. ... Females, on the other hand, have much more subdued plumage. Their feathers tend to be either brown, gray or cream in color.
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One of best ways to distinguish the sex of a trout is to examine the mouth. Female trout all have a short rounded nose or upper jaw, while male trout have a more elongated snout. If your trout has a lower jaw with a kype, it's a male for sure.
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How do you distinguish the male Common Loon from the female? ... You can only distinguish them when they are close together because the male is larger than the female. Young Common Loons look similar to winter adults, but have more white on their head and back.
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Female lovebirds tend to have broader heads, broader shoulders and a wider pelvic span than males do. You can estimate the width of the head and shoulders with your eyes and compare the bird with others to hazard a guess whether your bird might be female. Males may have longer beaks than females.
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Young Ducks At about 4 weeks old, male ducks will be much larger than females, with thicker legs and bigger feet. The males will be nearly twice as big as the hens at maturity. You can also tell males by their longer chest-to-tail proportion, whereas females are more compact in the body relative to tail length.