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[Hobby]

Hello everyone,
I walked through St. James’s yesterday and admired all the wildfowl. It's tricky to tell apart what is wild from what is not, though. What about the very confident greylag geese? There was a confident shelduck, too. While a bit less confident, Hooded Merganser must have been human-introduced. Or they all are?
I found not ideal that the nice tables for identifying the birds do not give information on this point. People may suppose that they are all native wild birds.
Thanks to anyone wants to clarify for me.

 

[Mono]

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St. James Park in London: What is wild and what isnt?

I spent a few hours in St. James Park today for the first time. I'm not at all familiar with the local birds and I can't figure out what is wild and "countable" and what isn't. Some things are obvious - the black swan for example, and I believe the pelicans are captive as well. But what about...

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[Hobby]

Sorry, I hadn't noticed that the topic was already covered. I should have guessed. Still, I'm curious about the greylag geese in particular.

 

[PYRTLE]

Domestic/Farmyard/Feral/Introduced/Collection.

Certainly not wild.

 

[Hobby]

There are some wild species, besides gulls, herons, moorhens, coot. I assume some little and crested grebes, tufted ducks, and wigeons I saw were wild

 

[dantheman]

There are some wild species, besides gulls, herons, moorhens, coot. I assume some little and crested grebes, tufted ducks, and wigeons I saw were wild

Indeed. The odd interesting or rarer bird also can turn up in the London Parks. I remember seeing a Greater Scaup a few winters ago.

But anything that could be rare and interesting coming to bread gets trickier perhaps - even wild birds like an easy meal sometimes ...