The technique is called Thoracic Compression. The real goal, with smaller birds, is to physically stop the heart. Not easily done on a goose, where suffocation will probably be the ultimate cause of death, but doable on smaller birds, depending on your hand strength. If you feel for the heart when hand squeezing, this is often not hard to accomplish.

Also used on small mammals.

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