Wouldn't the geese follow her back north?
After they fly south wouldn't the geese have followed her up north before the new season to go back up north?
shareI've thought of that too in a different way - wouldn't they have tried to follow Amy when it came time for everyone to leave the preserve?
There are hazards to imprinting, especially when it concerns a wild creature becoming attached to a human, because in doing so they will lose their association to other creatures of their own kind...
Sometimes we like to think of even local birds (sparrows, blue jays, etc.) as something almost close to a parakeet at home, but in reality even neighborhood birds are wild and while they might have constant contact with humans, in the end they will only have close contact with other birds, unlike imprinted birds that become attached to humans, though in my mind the real-life story that became the film was done and is done with the best of intentions...
From what I've learned, the imprinting still done today is done in such a way that the connection to humans is very limited (no sleeping in the bathtub with the birds as seen in the movie) and, like the geese that almost left Amy to fly with a wild flock, they are raised in such a way that they do not depend on man completely before being flown south, which makes their introduction into the wild more possible...
It's been found that not only does a bird imprint upon the parent figure, but sibling birds also imprint upon each other. I believe it was Konrad Laurens where I read this.
So, this family would have stuck together even when Amy managed to get away.
Not if Amy and Thomas went back to Canada by car or rail and the flying machines were dismantled and shipped back in crates.
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