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blue goose

• a white-headed, gray color phase of the snow goose, Chen hyperborea, breeding on the Arctic islands.

  See also: blue wavey  

  • 1795  (1911)  Blue geese . . . are of the same size as the Snow Geese. . . .
  • 1945  The Blue Goose is by no means a rare bird, yet until 1928 the nesting place of this waterfowl remained undiscovered.
  • 1963  . . . the Cree Indians talk the language of the blue and snow geese and coax them right down to their shotgun muzzles.