white-cheeked goose

white-cheeked goose
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: a goose that constitutes a variety (Branta canadensis occidentalis) of the Canada goose and has the white head patch divided by a black band under the throat so as to form two cheek patches

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white-cheeked goose «HWYT CHEEKT»,
a dark-colored Canada goose of the northern Pacific coast of North America; western Canada goose.

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