WATCH: Lost Baby Goose Finds Way Home With Help From Hoboken Residents

HOBOKEN, NJ — A pair of Hudson County residents who spotted a baby goose near the Hoboken waterfront on a weekend morning enticed the animal to follow them until they could get it back to its mom, dad, and siblings — according to a viral video posted this week on the animal website, The Dodo.

More than a million people viewed the video after it was posted Wednesday.

The narrator says, in the video, that the adventure began when he and friends headed to breakfast on "a normal Saturday in Hoboken." They noticed a lone yellow goose.

Earlier, they had seen a flock of geese waddle past their apartment, so they wondered if that was the baby's family.

"We saw this little baby goose all by himself. We were trying to get him to trust us without touching him," the narrator noted.

(Some believe that animal parents will abandon their young if touched by a human, but it's a myth, various experts say. Still, it may not be a wise idea to touch a wild animal.)

What happened next was an odyssey. The residents named the gosling Jeffrey (why not Ryan?) and went on a "mission" to lure him toward his family.

"There was fear, there was doubt, there was the unknown. But we were on a mission to get Jeffrey home," the narrator says.

They find a flock of geese, but the flock and Jeffrey ignore each other.

However, further along on the waterfront, they find more geese right at the river's edge. The baby jumps into the river, which scares the narrator. But surprisingly, the mom, dad, and then babies jump in, one by one, to join him.

More than 3,600 people commented.

The adventure is a few years old, according to other media, but that didn't stop people from enjoying it anew in 2023.

"Love this heartwarming video of Jeffrey the baby goose and the good Samaritans who reunited him with his Hoboken family," wrote Hoboken Councilman Phil Cohen on Thursday.

The goose rescuer is Ben Yurcisin, the founder of the Jersey City Tech Meetup, who posted the video again on social media this past October.

“My best friend and I were walking to a diner in Hoboken, NJ. On our walk, I noticed there was a baby goose alone on the train tracks,” Yurcisin told the British press.

"That is so sweet of them to make sure he found his family before they just abandoned him," said one commenter on The Dodo. "One of the cutest videos watching Jeffrey waddle so fast to get to the other geese. It was a happy ending for beautiful little Jeffrey swimming with his family. I love this."

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