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Caneighda goose
Black Beak Bernache.
Demi-Hemi-Draconequus
or... Canidia Goose.
Wawa is apparently a Native American name for them. They're also sometimes called a "Honker Goose," according to Google.
Wikipedia says that in the 50s, they were thought to be extinct.
The Crystal Goose.
Vanhoover Goose.
Gooseasaurus
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Weird. They're incredibly numerous now, in my experience.
Honker.
C'mon, not everything has to be a horse pun; just town names. Why can't something be funny to say?
That damned noise making creatures from tartarus which won't ever stop and let me get ten minutes sleep?
Of course to be classy it should be in Latin.
Waterfoul.
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I sense personal experience may have influenced this name choice.
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As opposed to a chain of overpriced convenience stores (I know: redundant) which litter the landscape and turn up everywhere they're not wanted.
...huh.
You say 'thought', I hear 'fervently wished'.
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They do tend to Rex the place.
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...and the worst part is that I was planning to use Fluttershy before you said that.
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Pessimam faciens creaturae notitia a tartaro quae non semper adepto mihi sistere et decem minutes somno?
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Also grass, sidewalks, parking lots, curbs, streets, and anything foolish enough to be at ground level for more than three seconds.
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Yeah, apparently the breeding and conservation program worked.
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Luckily, the scourge of sandhill cranes around here keeps the Canada Goose population in check. And for annoying opportunists, we've got seagulls, too.
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To be fair, it was only one subspecies (the giant Canada Goose) which was thought to be extinct.
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A seagull, however, will at least pretend to back off. Oh, it'll come charging in again at the moment your back is turned -- but as long as you're paying direct and loud attention to it, there's a chance it'll at least act like it's thinking about leaving. A Canada Goose... hyper-territorial, almost instinctively hiss-charge-strike at anything which even remotely annoys them, never get out of the way even when it's to their own benefit, take whatever they feel like taking and, courtesy of what I swear is the single least efficient digestive system on the planet, leave behind a virtual carpet of reminders of their presence, which decay at a slightly slower rate than plastic.
For lack of Italian ornithologists. They really should have been named America Geese.
(No personal experience with Sandhill Cranes. I find the most annoying members of that family to be the Frasier and Niles.)
Black-Beaked Shitbuckets
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Probably won't fit into the Everyone rating.
But for what it's worth, that one was really sincere.
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I'm just trying to amuse myself, I apologize :)
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As do seagulls. They're just smaller. Really, in Michigan, at least, they fill the pigeons' ecological niche.
They're sometimes aggressive, and tall enough to peck through the window of a E350.
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And they've got up to a 7 1/2 foot wingspan, which you can only really appreciate when you're looking at it through your windshield at a closing speed of about 60mph. Luckily, between his vigorous flapping and my frantic brake application, he just cleared.
Clearly this is a Caneighdian goose.
Edit: I lived in northern Colorado for a few years, and every year 10s of 1000s of these bastards would descend on the town and crap all over it for weeks at a time, not to mention create occasional traffic hazards as they blithely walked across the streets like college students with iPods.
I still sometimes hear them flying overhead in the Bay Area, but there aren't as many green fields to pepper with honking grey, defecating goose-bodies. The crows have recently taken up that niche.
Crappy Vodka bird.
I expect the story's name will be something like [Insert Pony Here] Gets Goosed. Or did you already mention that joke?
I've always heard them called Canadian Geese, so Mania Geese comes to mind. It almost rhymes kinda sorta. Call them Cardigan Geese and you can make them some sort of sweater-eating monstrosity (or they merely wear sweaters because it's dang cold up north). Radian Geese are trigonometry nightmares conjured from Twilight Sparkle's fever dreams; they fly in V's, but the V's link together to form whole circles.
Of course, why settle for those when you could have the Klaxon Goose, whose head is literally an obnoxious carriage horn?
I'd call it the lesser emu.
the ayyyyyyyyygoose
or maybe the sorrygoose
or maybe the *insertcanadajokehere*goose
Ah, memories. I had a lovely time last year when we had a fire drill. See, my town is essentially carpeted with geese come spring, and we had to migrate to a big grassy field outside the school. Which was covered in goose droppings. In a tightly-packed crowd, full of people bigger than me, all trying to stick to the minuscule safe spots. The teachers had to stop us before we came in to wipe down our feet. None were spared.
The Dolorous Black-Beaked Kvetch
The Hackle-Raising Hoof-Fouler
The Amstiverous Glamgewhorter
The Ear-Piercing Odure-Dropper
Or just go with Caneighda Goose, which gives you an opportunity to teach the real world nomenclature confusion. Dash can call them Caneighdian Geese, Rarity can correct her by saying they were named after somepony named Caneighda, and Twilight can correct her by pointing out that this is an urban legend and they were in fact named after the region, albeit before it achieved political recognition as a nation...
I second nemryn's suggestion
That goose, with a little gem polish, clearly hails from
Pony CanadaThe Crystal Empire."Caneigh Geese"
Drop the -dian suffix, makes it sound like "can-of-geese"
Or work in a Scootaloo joke
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"Crystal Geese?" Rainbow Dash said. "I thought they were extinct."
"They were," Fluttershy replied excitedly, "but there were some in the Crystal Empire when it was banished, and now they're making a stunning comeback!"
Rainbow Dash looked around the streaked, stained, befeathered and befouled town square of Ponyville. "Can we make them extinct again, please?"
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Goosed
The parasprites were a warm-up act.
For most pegasi, they'd be known as "the bane of my existence." Hmmm. Note to self. Write fanfic where someone grey always has her attempt to help with the southbound birds get crashed by the nasty things.
The Writer's So-Called Brain In Action
A few of the notes I just scribbled down:
Start at the Acres? Geese don't have apples as a primary food source, but they'll try to get away with it. Don't want too many to start -- maybe AJ encounters a lone lead scout. Shouldn't keep them all there: they're field grazers first. Step in the refuse before seeing the source? Gunked-up apples.
Keep Twilight out of this. Spike can go for the ride, but Twi's out of town for the duration. Several ponies not-so-secretly relieved, as it means the geese may not try to eat the settled zone.
Fluttershy only recently read about them in an updated edition. (Have her reading off alternate names in the background while the others are arguing. End with PresentPerfect's as Name Cut Short.) Were extinct in Equestria, but some got caught in the Empire during time-out and they're migrating again. Can communicate with them, but they don't listen. The Stare works, at least temporarily, but she can't do it too often. Headaches? Wearing her out?
Mayor calls AJ into office. What did your sister do this time? Denial while thinking about how she already quizzed Apple Bloom. Okay, what did the Bearers do? Because it's either the CMC or the Bearers, pretty much every time.
Pinkie hears them called 'airasprites' and gets the instruments out. Three very large geese attack. "Music critics." Use a very short cameo where they bring Lyra in to try again and she looks at the geese, shakes her head, and trots away?
Eventually, they're going to infest Ponyville proper. Lawn grazers. Everypony's lawn. Roseluck Vs. Goose?
Is Rarity going nuts? Can't take a step without fouling a hoof, but there's the chance for all these goose feathers, possibly goose down... Very twitchy, at the least. Towing her own emergency hoof bath? (ETA: And naturally, a goose tries to take a bath in it.) Why not galoshes?
What about endangered species laws? They're effectively being reintroduced to Equestria and disrupting the local ecosystem, but is anypony going to try and protect them because as far as they're concerned, the currently-local geese are all there are and therefore can't be harmed? Don't want to take this too far: species protection law is probably Day Court and Celestia's not going to pass anything which displaces an existing settled zone. Some officious bureaucrat might want to declare Ponyville as Goose Habitat Primary, but it'll never go through. Still might try to enforce no-attack, no-shoving, no-getting-in-the-way.
Quick shot of Ponyville police at work here, trying to direct goose traffic? Market infested, Streets infested. Two wander into the school and start building a nest under Cheerliee's desk. Have one following Diamond around, trying to get the tiara?
Fruit bats... Set a problem to solve a problem? (Fluttershy can't talk to them as she can most animals. Do they actually have vegetable aspects beyond the appearance?)
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I want to see this.
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The phrase I keep getting echoes on is "Suspiciously extinct."
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This sounds great.
Regarding the fruit bats, or whatever critter you go with, just a reminder that that will cause unintentional shenanigans. We've tried that with mongeese and Hawaii, in order to kill the accidentally introduced snakes, and that didn't work out that well. lol
OK, going for appearance-based convincing-sounding ones here. Snowbeard Goose? Tarhead Goose? Chinstrap Goose? Black-Ended/Black-Tipped Goose?
You could also use the name of an IRL Earth relative, the cackling goose.
Ah, hay, I'm mostly just here in the hope that you'll work a whiffling pun in there somewhere.
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Ulp.
"An Infinite Loop of Shit and Psychopathy"
I'm fond of Canida for Canada, because other nations should be other species at least some of the time, and some more evolved version of diamond dogs have a kingdom up there. Equestria's world is very literal, but it sure doesn't have to be all horse puns. Of coruse this supports the idea of it being an alternate earth, because what else one of the most literal minded planet's in existence call the planet. Rock or Planet would also be contenders however.