Flock Id Please? (1 Viewer)

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Dharana

Member

• Feb 3, 2014

• #1

Find a video clip of a flock of bird shot near Heard's Sanctuary, Dallas , Texas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igjACytrAjY

Seek assistance from experts to ID the flock. interesting to note 2 nos. of birds at the left extreme which appear to be different.
Dharana

 

Adam W

Well-known member

• Feb 3, 2014

• #2

The main flock appear to be Snow Geese (or possibly Ross's), The 2 dark birds could perhaps be Blue phase Snows or perhaps White Fronted Geese?

 

KC Foggin

Very, very long time member

Supporter

• Feb 3, 2014

• #3

Hi Dharana and a warm welcome to you from those of us on staff here at BF :t:

Although it appears that you have a partial answer, i'm going to move your thread to the Bird I D section. I've subscribed you to this thread so you don't lose track of it

 

Jeff Hopkins

Just another...observer

• Feb 3, 2014

• #4

I'd go with snows, not Ross'. Blue-morph Ross' geese are extremely rare and to have two in one flock would be unlikely. Since the dark birds are the same size as the white geese, that means the white birds are snows, since the dark birds would either be white-fronts or blue morph snows.

As to which those two are, it's low probability that such a small flock of snow geese would have two blues AND both of them would end up on the end of the skein. Therefore, I think probability says those are white-fronts. But that's really just a SWAG.

 

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stonechat1

New member

• Feb 4, 2014

• #5

Agree with Snow Geese

 

Larry Lade

Moderator

• Feb 12, 2014

• #6

I thought that perhaps the Snow Geese were being followed by a couple of Canada Geese (as they seemed a little big larger than the snows).