In feeding studies, fields of corn and small grains attracted most geese. Geese generally will not land close to fencerows, woodlots, houses or barns. Strips of corn alternating with wide grass fields often will draw flights. Grazing birds, they are generally more land-based than ducks, especially when goslings are growing. Geese raise families in city parks, reservoirs and farm ponds, although the vast majority breed in the far north.
Goslings are precocial.
Their eyes are open, they are covered with a fine, brown fuzz, and they're able to walk and swim soon after they hatch. They leave the nest from several to 24 hours after hatching. Both parents stay with the goslings, and the female broods them nightly for about a week, and then less often. When young are half-grown, their parents begin to molt. As autumn approaches, geese prepare to migrate.