Lesser White-fronted Goose x Barnacle Goose hybrid (1 Viewer)

hannu

Well-known member

• May 28, 2008

• #1

See follow links:

http://users.utu.fi/hlehto/photo/hybrid/aeryxbleu1.shtml

http://www.jncc.gov.uk/PDF/pub07_waterbirds_part5.1.8.pdf

 

Gentoo

Guest

• May 29, 2008

• #2

Looks like one to me although I haven't seen a such bird yet that I knew was a certainty. I'll wait for joern to comment on this but for now, I'd say it's one.

 

jogresh

Bimble and patch

• May 29, 2008

• #3

We had a presumed hybrid BG x LWF at Conwy RSPB reserve, originally with a LWF. They were presumed to come from the Swedish reintroduction scheme. The hybrid looked quite different to this bird though.

 

Joern Lehmhus

Well-known member

• May 29, 2008

• #4

Gentoo said:

Looks like one to me although I haven't seen a such bird yet that I knew was a certainty. I'll wait for joern to comment on this but for now, I'd say it's one.

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Hi Gentoo,
I´d say so too...

However, from what I have seen so far I think this combination can be quite variable -
so , jogresh - your bird may well have been the same combination even if it differed in several respects.


Cheers, Jörn

 

jogresh

Bimble and patch

• May 29, 2008

• #5

Thanks Joern, i thought there might be room for variation.

 

hannu

Well-known member

• May 29, 2008

• #6

more odd gooses

http://users.utu.fi/hlehto/photo/hybrid/aalbxbleu2.shtml

 

Joern Lehmhus

Well-known member

• May 30, 2008

• #7

hannu said:

more odd gooses

http://users.utu.fi/hlehto/photo/hybrid/aalbxbleu2.shtml

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Hannu, I think that one from your link above and this one :

http://users.utu.fi/hlehto/photo/hybrid/aalbxbleu1.shtml

are Barnacle goose x Snow goose.

The amount of white and the grin patch (though not very strong) and the similarity with some Norwegian and Dutch hybrids, which in two cases (one in Netherlands, on ein Norway) were raised by a Barnacle and a snow goose together, lets me think that.

 

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davercox

Dave Cox

Supporter

• May 30, 2008

• #8

Anyone in/visiting Devon who's interested: come to Dawlish and see our very own LW/Barnacle.
I don't do photos so come and see for yourselves.
Several years old.
Guess it's male, and has become famous for adopting duck broods: strange headlines in local papers including 'geeks' ...