Greylag goose distribution (1 Viewer)

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 ?

Plastic ones can certainly be found here but as you can see the ABA list is somewhat lacking in genuine Greylag sightings.

Luke

http://www.americanbirding.org/checklist/abachecklist.pdf

Thanks Streatham -

BWP, and the "Guide to N American birds", and the ABA list can't all be wrong!!!

I reckon my informant was confusing "greylag" with "grey geese" and was talking about greater whitefront