It rejoices in the name of the “swoose”, a portmanteau word indicating its origin, for its father was a swan and its mother a goose. It is natural to use the term swan instead of a goose as these birds have many significant factors in common. It rejoices in the name of the “swoose”, a portmanteau word indicating its origin, for its father was a swan and its mother a goose. Published 17 February 2018. It rejoices in the name of the 'swoose', a portmanteau word indicating its origin, for its father was a swan and its mother a goose!" It seems too elegant and graceful to be all-goose and its neck is very long and slender. Share. Young birds before fledging are called goslings. Vultee XP-54 Swoose Goose. 1942 Press Photo Miami FL Kay Paige Swoose Swan Goose Bird Farm Girl. New Zealand goose: How one blind bisexual bird became an icon. The "Swoose" is about the size of the Giant Canada Geese that live in the upper Midwest of the U.S. and Canada. Price: US $18.88. This ill-assorted pair had three children — … ... with the offspring of a swan and a goose known as a swoose. I’m so curious if others have seen this romantic, beautiful connection as well. 39 ANOTHER "SWOOSE" OR SWAN X GOOSE HYBRID. After repairs, 19th Bomb Group pilot Captain Weldon Smith to dub the aircraft "The Swoose" after the popular song Alexander the Swoose from a ditty written by Franklin Furlett and performed by bandleader Kay Kyser about a bird that was "half swan, half goose: Alexander is a swoose". Stranger still was the Vultee XP-54 a single-engine twin-boom fighter demonstrator that the military tested in 1943. BY JOHN C. PHILLIPS. It’s a bird hybrid that is only seen in select parts of the world and is a rare sight due to how long it tends to live. Strictly speaking, the term goose is applied to the female and gander to the male. In my account of this bird I quoted the Daily Mail from 1920: "A bird prodigy of evil and hybrid character is the despair of a Norfolk farmer. A bird prodigy of evil and hybrid character is the despair of a Norfolk farmer. XLV' 1928 PHILLIPS, A Swan-Goose Hybrid. It has long, tapered wings and flies with a flock of Canada Geese that frequent a park. In colouring it rather more resembles the Goose (cf. By Yvette Tan BBC News. (Plate V.) ON the accompanying plate I present some photographs of an interesting hybrid which came into my hands in September 1925. Swan + Geese . There is a cool blog about bird hybrids that offers some examples of swoose I wasn’t able to find any photos of courtship online, but it was a tricky keyword search. Different Types of Bird Hybrids From Interbreeding 1. Literally, The waterfowl species from Anser and Branta genera from the Anserini tribe are geese, ganders, and goslings. The word goose was originally reserved for the female bird 1. Item Information. 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