Oh wow! Kholmogory geese are absolutely beautiful, I haven't seen them before!!
It is truly a shame what a language/politics gap can do to knowledge. Even finding information about lion-headed geese, by all accounts a popular and extant breed in China, is almost impossible. Hoping some day...
I'm pretty new to learning about geese, and one thing that really surprised me was the apparent lack of many different breeds of Swan Geese. African, Brown/White Chinese, and some of the very heavy variants like Lion-headed Geese seem to be the only ones. Given the natural tendency of people to...