Is goose on your menu this holiday season? In this episode of Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist takes a look at the tradition of the Christmas goose and the status of our native migratory geese. A few years back, I was doing some research on what a traditional German Christmas feast contained. I learned that, while hogs were usually butchered in fall and eaten in winter, it was a real treat to harvest and eat wild geese. In fact, the goose was not just a preferred German holiday feast;