Domestics, escapees and hybrids- oh my! (W Michigan, USA) (1 Viewer)

[Daddylion]

Alright, is Chunky the giant goose a domestic escapee as well as his buddy the white duck? And what's with the white-faced Canada Goose? I think it's a hybrid, but with what? And the Mallard, is he a hybrid, or is he just messed up?

Thanks!

 

[MLoyko]

Hi Daddylion,

The Canada goose in number one looks like a canada with some partial albinism or leucisim. Althought maybe there could be a mix with something else but I wouldn't be able to pick it up.

The second picture looks very much like a drake mallard I saw in eclipse plumage last year.

Lastly that is a domestic greylag goose with some farmyard ducks aka not wild.

-Matt

 

[Gentoo]

That first one is a Canada x graylag hybrid. Domestic that is.

I agree on the other two for the most part.

 

[Daddylion]

Thanks!

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

If that was all at the same lake, the domestic greylag might even be the parent of the hybrid Domestic greylag x Canada goose.

Increased amount of white in the face is quite common in hybrids domestic greylag x canada.

 

[Daddylion]

Ok thanks! Not that this applies to this case, but how do you go about adding hybrids to your life list? Say you have a Canada Goose x Snow Goose hybrid, and an Snow Goose would be a lifer? Would you add Snow Goose to your life list or not? And say you have a lifer x lifer hybrid, which or both or neither would you add?

Thanks!

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

It would be your list , so you can do as you like.

Personally,
I wouldn´t add a hybrid snow x canada as a snow (it is only 50% snow),
i´d put it on a "hybrids" list.

 

[htcdude]

I've seen a few Mallards looking like that round this way before

 

[Daddylion]

Ok cool thanks guys.

 

[MLoyko]

Agreed with Joern, I wouldn't add it to my list just like I didn't add a dead swamp sparrow to my list (different circumstance I know) but it is your list.

 

[Daddylion]

OK thanks, I'll be a little stricter about what I add to my life list. (I've had to go back and take off a few "unsure" ones, just to keep it real.)

Thanks!