conclusion of 2025 goose season

This week concludes the 2025 Canada Goose relocation season, and what a great season it was! 

Background
All birds molt all of their feathers and grow new ones every year. Most birds (Robins, Blue Jays, Red Tailed Hawks, etc.) drop one flight feather on each side. When this pair of feathers are mostly grown in, they will drop the adjacent pair, etc. 

Geese, on the other hand, do not molt this way. They drop all of their flight feathers at once. 

For about 6 weeks, they can run, walk, or swim, but they cannot fly. During this time, we bring in kayakers...

and portable corrals...
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and specially designed trailers...

The geese are then transported to a remote lake somewhere in Western Oklahoma where they are released...

They remain in their new home for the rest of the summer regrowing their flight feathers, and when they can fly again, they are acclimated to their new surroundings and they do not return. 

For several years now, we have had a goal of relocating 1,000 geese. This year we not only met that goal, but blew it out of the water! 1,542 geese relocated this year. Who knows? Maybe 2,000 next year! 

We had several new client this year (one had over 700 geese on one golf course!) but something we have noticed is a gradual trend with our long term customers. They will have hundreds the first year and then each successive year, the number steady drops. Many of our customers who started with hundreds of geese now have 15, 20 or maybe 25. An effective goose management system (Egg addling and roundup) will manage the population very effectively. 

It is best not think of a goose roundup as a permanent elimination of geese on your property, but rather as a reset on the population. If you have 50 geese today and 10 more fly in, you now have 60 geese; if we remove the original 50 and 10 more fly in, you now have 10 geese. 

Do you have a problem with Canada geese? Call Predator Impact to discuss options. We have a lot of tricks up our sleeves and love to talk about goose management. There is never a cost for advice or consultation. 

Looking forward to hearing from you. 

Predator Impact, LLC
(918) 397-4091