Can you help us ID this goose? it was seen yesterday afternoon at Mill Creek Marsh, by the second bridge you cross going counter-clockwise.
We are thinking Snow Goose. How about you?
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Can you help us ID this goose? it was seen yesterday afternoon at Mill Creek Marsh, by the second bridge you cross going counter-clockwise.
We are thinking Snow Goose. How about you?
It looks like the blue variant of a Snow Goose (sometimes called a Blue Goose).
looks like some sort of hybrid to me–but def w/ some Snow Goose parentage)
I have reservations with calling this a snow goose:
– The beak doesn’t have the grin patch that I normally associate with snow geese. The beak seems to be more shaped like a Canada
– Snow geese have gray or pink feet. This goose has orange feet.
How about a hybrid with a domestic goose? Scroll down in the below link for some photos of hybrids.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/domgeese.htm
I’m not great with hybirds, but I can say that this bird is definitely not a pure Canada Goose, but is likely the result of a cross between a Canada Goose and a Domestic Greylag Goose or some other domestic goose of questionable ancestry. The orange legs are a good indication of the domestic goose ancestry, as snow geese won’t show these.