About the Registry

The Porch Goose Registry keeps the record of every porch goose in town and every outfit it has worn. Somebody had to.

The Registrar: a goose in a navy blazer and red tie, holding a rubber stamp
The Registrar
Post
Head Office
Duties
Reviews every filing. Approves nothing in a hurry.
Equipment
One rubber stamp, never put down.
The Registrar

How it works

  1. Browse the map. Every pin is a real goose, photographed by a neighbor. No account needed.
  2. File a goose. Spot one that isn’t on file? Take a photo from the sidewalk, place the pin, and it gets a registry number, like PGH-0042.
  3. Log outfit changes. Geese change outfits with the seasons. Each change goes on the goose’s record, so its whole wardrobe is on file.
  4. Honk. Honk the geese you like. The most honked geese and neighborhoods make the leaderboard.

Field Offices

Each city has its own Field Office, with its own register, colors and map. Pittsburgh is the first. If your city has porch geese and no Field Office, apply to open one.

Ranks

Regular filers move up the ranks: Clerk, Registrar, Senior Registrar, Deputy Commissioner and, eventually, Commissioner of Geese.

Porches belong to people

Every goose lives on somebody’s porch. We ask filers to shoot from the public sidewalk, keep people, house numbers and license plates out of frame, and never step onto a property. Pins show the goose, never a street address.

If a goose on the map is yours and you’d rather it wasn’t, use “Is this your porch? Ask us to take it down.” on its record. You don’t need an account, and we act on these first.

Contact

Questions, corrections or praise for the Registrar: registrar@gooseregistry.com.