The Canadian Goose Problem

The Brilliant Lego Team (BLT) of Fairfax County, VA, produced this video as the result of research on Canada Geese (aka Canadian Geese) and their waste. BLT is a FIRST Lego League team. Please send this to your friends, colleagues and anyone concerned about Canadian Geese and their waste and its effect on the environment. [Photo credits: Opening - Mike Kepka, Chronicle. Closing - wikimedia.org.]

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Canada
• Canadian
• Goose
• pollution
• waste
• droppings
• ponds
• robot
• water
• bacteria
• e-coli
• Fairfax
• FLL
• Lego
• League

[flobotoast]

Couldn't have been better said. Check this out: "Dr. Timothy Ford, professor at Harvard School of Public Health states: "Numbers of Cryptosporidium oocysts associated with Canada geese and waterfowl in general are likely to be minimal, unimportant relative to the potential for oocysts shed from other forms of wildlife and humans. In my mind, there is no possibility that the Canada goose will ever be a major route of infection. To suggest otherwise is utterly ludicrous and you can quote me."

[metman007]

Excellent video! Very creative too. My favorite scene is the goose pooping which brings the issue to light with humor! I live next to a pond in New Hampshire. The geese are still here and it's November, so I appreciate the education this video provides...............Cookie6­51

[thumperman1001]

you are all butsocks

[meandkg]

Don't whine about geese when we are soooooo much worse

[widecast]

@chinchilla2142

"Australian accents" are you serious?

Half a world out mate.

[GerryK61]

People do more to polute the enviroment than Canada geese ever will.

If you want to control the goose population hire hunters that will kill them in a Humane way.

Then give the meat to soup kitchens to help the poor & hungry.

Works here!

[chinchilla2142]

Amazing job small children! I love your australian accents and your cute, puffy cheeks! i just want to eat some grass and look at lolcats! nom nom nom nom nom nom!

[politicalgadfly]

I live with a huge flock of geese and do not have any of the problems cited.

Also failed to mention is the fact that the resident geese mentioned are the product of hunting propagation methods from years ago. Farm raised birds were stocked for hunters to shoot. Since these birds never migrated to begin with they never learned how and thus never taught the next generations.

If there is a problem blame the hunters, who now claim to be correcting the problem they created, not the birds

[GaryHammerCA]

Well done! Such geese are problems here in Northern California, too. I particularly enjoyed the dramatic re-enactment of goose behavior.

[sandycash1]

The news about Canadian geese is getting around the world, thanks to your research. Great, entertaining job. It will inspire other kids your age to tackle environmental problems in their communities.

- Sandy, Bet Shemesh, Israel

[TKDSailing]

Great job! I had no idea that the geese could be such a problem. Keep up the good work! From St. Pete, FL