Wicked Local A Pink-footed Goose comes to town: Does anyone remember The Big Year, the 2011 movie about three maniac birders who race across North America trying to spot the highest number of different bird species in a single year? It became an instant classic…sort of. One of the birders, played by Jack Black, spends a lot of time trying to track down a Pink-footed Goose, which is a real bird even though it sounds like a species Hollywood made up just for the story. I remember watching this movie in an actual theater (remember those?) and not being sure what a Pink-footed Goose looked like and why they cared so much about seeing one. So, later, I looked it up. Then I got it.