Canada Goose Call MP3s
That unmistakable deep, honking call — dialed in for decoy spreads on both sides of the Atlantic, whether you're hunting or managing local flocks.
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About this species
Around 95 cm in length, the Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) is a large grazing goose of the Anatidae family: the largest grey goose, with a long black neck and a clean white chin-strap. Adaptable, it thrives on park lakes, reservoirs and farmland pools.
The loud, resonant double honk of family parties carries far across water and farmland. It grazes grass, eelgrass and waste grain, often well away from open water. It gathers in large, boisterous flocks whose resonant honking carries far across parks and open farmland. Its skeins, long woven into continental folklore and hunting tradition, are among the great spectacles of the European winter.
Legal use
In its native North America, the Canada Goose is a mainstream, heavily hunted waterfowl species across all four flyways under standard state and federal migratory-bird frameworks, with both regular migratory seasons and separate early seasons for resident populations. In Great Britain, it is a non-native, naturalised species that is nonetheless a genuine Schedule 2 quarry species under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, with a standard open season (1 September–31 January, or 20 February below the high-water mark) alongside separate general licences that allow shooting, egg-oiling, and nest destruction outside that season for public health, safety, or agricultural-damage reasons. So unlike in North America, hunting it in Britain sits alongside, rather than replaces, its treatment as an invasive species requiring active population control. Because the balance between "game bird" and "managed invasive species" shifts by continent and even by country in Europe, check our full country-by-country disclaimer before hunting or controlling this species.