Hawaiian goose

As a schoolboy I remember going to the Wildfowl Trust at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire and seeing Sir Peter Scott's huge painting of Hawaiian geese flying over Mauna Loa. He had started a captive breeding programme to rescue them from extinction and there were (probably still are) Hawaiian geese all over the place at Slimbridge.
I woul,d never have believed that one day I would get to Hawaii and see the offspring of his birds flying freely around the islands - but here they are. There is a healthy population now on several of the Hawaiian islands. Perhaps because of their captive ancestry, the birds are very accustomed to humans and like to hang out in parks and golf courses rather than the volcanic lave slopes which used to be their habitat.