Another Goose Puzzle - UK (1 Viewer)

pstraughan

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• Jun 19, 2010

• #1

This white Goose has been swimming about on the local wildfowl reserve since last winter and was possible there the winter before. This is the first time I've seen it out of the water. Both Canada and Greylag Geese are abundant and have plenty of goslings. Looks too big to be a Greylag, similar in size to a Canada but body seems bulkier. Canada Geese in second photo for comparison.

Thanks

Pat

 

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fugl

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• Jun 19, 2010

• #2

Leucistic Canada Goose? (doesn't look like the run-of-the-mill white barnyard goose).

 

htcdude

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• Jun 19, 2010

• #3

Looks like it's just a Domestic Goose to me

 

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stonechat1

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• Jun 19, 2010

• #4

Blue eyes suggest Domestic Goose, unsure which breed.

 

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Cheshire Birder

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• Jun 19, 2010

• #5

Its a Domestic Goose. Looks like your going to have a few more interesting looking geese when those goslings grow up.

CB

 

Joern Lehmhus

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• Jun 21, 2010

• #6

It is a domestic greylag goose x Canada goose hybrid. Those can turn out white and blue-eyed too.

The bill is much too small for a domestic greylag, and the tail feathers are uniform greyish to the tip, no hint of the pattern of Anser geese there.

 

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stevethehydra

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• Sep 9, 2010

• #7

I've seen a goose looking nearly identical to this one, which after a long search i identified as a Canada x white domestic (Greylag) hybrid. Domestic/Greylag x Canada hybrids vary considerably in colour depending on how far the domestic parent is from wild Greylag colouring, and can be very varied even within one brood. They are all intermediate in general proportions between Canada and Greylag though, and tend to have a more Canada-like head and bill shape.

The goose in question (which only ever accompanied Canada geese, and lived on a park boating lake with no resident domestic/Greylag geese): http://pic.atpic.com/1622020/600
http://pic.atpic.com/1622022/600
http://pic.atpic.com/1630820/600 (note larger size than Canada, although this was one of the smaller Canadas in the group it associated with)
http://pic.atpic.com/1630821/600

 

Vinch

Vinch

• Oct 23, 2010

• #8

Please note that one of goslings have pink legs... May be the white hybrid is father of these goslings...