Droppings on the sunbathing lawn and on bike paths, grazed fields and driven away storks. Wherever the Egyptian goose appears, it makes negative headlines. A cross-district hunt took place near Karlstadt (Main-Spessart district) in the second week of January. 50 hunters killed 30 Egyptian geese. There won’t be more for now. From mid-January to early August is the closed season in Bavaria. It needs other ways and means to limit the population. How many Egyptian geese are there in Lower Franconia? Nobody has counted them, there are not even current estimates.
