[Chickensoup]

I would love to try my hand at a Canada Goose. However I understand that for some reason they are considered ENDANGERED.

[Paul R.]

Endangered? What on earth gave you that idea? In many places in the US, Canadian Geese are highly successful / far-too-numerous pests that have to be aggressively culled to reduce the problems they cause to (barely) tolerable levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_goose

(Scroll down to “Relationship with humans”.)

Now, it is true that numbers of migratory geese in some overwintering locations is down. But, that is partially due to the birds finding better opportunities, created at least partially by humans, elsewhere. Very interesting article:

https://thesouthern.com/outdoors/column-les-winkeler-flooding-horseshoe-lake-the-absurdity-of-nature/article_4dade5ce-ec0b-56f8-9645-0d2a27e421e0.html

[ProtectOurFreedom]

This thread got me curious about how to prep Canada Goose for cooking and I found COOKING MY GOOSE, by Hank Shaw, October 11, 2010 at Honest Food. Hank wrote "The feathers on a large Canada are tough to remove, and waxing one takes two full blocks of paraffin."

Hmmm...I really don't want to know about how to wax a goose.

[Mr. K]

I catch one that craps in my swimming pool one more time and it will absolutely be endangered.