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Trivia about goose

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It rivals the turkey as the preferred bird at English Christmas feasts
In England & Scandinavia this is the traditional bird for the Christmas feast, not the turkey
It's what a gosling grows up to be
Someone who's quite timid can't "say boo to" this silly bird
Duck, duck, l'oie; (l'oie of course referring to this other feathered friend)
The adjective anserous means as silly as one of these birds of the subfamily anserinae
This web-footed swimming bird has a longer neck & longer legs than a duck
In "A Christmas Carol", the Cratchit family has this bird, stuffed, for Christmas dinner
Aesop wrote of one of these who laid a golden egg each morning
Bird that'll do in a pinch(5)
Ask your "mother"-- this "silly" bird is une oie
Famous nickname of Leon Goslin, who played in all 19 World Series games with the Washington Senators
Figuratively, to prod someone into action
The toulouse, a breed of this bird, is especially popular at Christmas
To create different words, this prefix can go before berry, neck & flesh
The nene, an endangered Hawaiian species of this fowl, has grown from 30 birds in 1952 to over 800 today
Before the metal-tipped pen, the standard writing instrument was a feather from this bird
Weighing upwards of 25 pounds, a Toulouse is the traditional one of these eaten at Christmas
The Hawaiian species of this is also known as the nene