But how exactly did a goose end up an icon? It all started around 1990 when a black swan named Henrietta flew in to the Waimanu lagoon, located in a small town on New Zealand's Kapiti Coast.

[Photo/Xinhua] "A LONE GOOSE CANNOT MAKE A FORMATION" While hosting the 2014 APEC meeting by Yanqi Lake in Beijing's northern ...

They're not "special" enough to preserve. "Biologically, there is obviously not much difference between a swan and, say, a duck or a goose," Dr Steve Loughnan, Professor of Psychology at the ...

Archaeologists think the figurine dates to the fifth or fourth century B.C. The swan's body is made from reindeer wool that has been processed into white felt, while the beak, eyes and wing tips are ...