Greylag geese in North America?
One for our American friends.
The world distribution map in my reference book (Birds of Western Palearctic) show the wild greylag as absent from N America.
Certainly have never seen one there - only greater whitefronts.
But have just been told, most authoritatively (by a non-birder) that greylags live and breed from the tundra to as far south as Carolina.
An American friend has just sent a picture of a "greylag" but it is obviously a farmyard bird with a greylag ancestry.
So who is right ? Any greylag sightings over there ?
One for our American friends.
The world distribution map in my reference book (Birds of Western Palearctic) show the wild greylag as absent from N America.
Certainly have never seen one there - only greater whitefronts.
But have just been told, most authoritatively (by a non-birder) that greylags live and breed from the tundra to as far south as Carolina.
An American friend has just sent a picture of a "greylag" but it is obviously a farmyard bird with a greylag ancestry.
So who is right ? Any greylag sightings over there ?
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