Common Species Names - Geese

Lay people and professionals use terms to describe in one word the status of an animal. The term may relate to the sexual status of an animal (intact or sexually functional, or altered or sexually nonfunctional) or the age status of an animal. Terms have also been derived to denote the process of giving birth and the grouping of animals.

anserine (ahn-sehr-ihn): geese

gander: intact (not sexually altered) male goose

goose: intact female goose

gosling: young goose

gaggle: group of geese