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Josh S
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p.1 #1 · Unusual Goose ID Please

The following photographs are not mine. Rather they are from a lady named Peg Hauschildt, a subscriber to ONTbirds (a user-submitted daily updated mailing list of bird sightings in Ontario).

I am curious as to what this goose might be. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Josh

This bird was sighted in Kingston, ON at the eastern end of Lake Ontario

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Nov 19, 2008 at 08:04 PM

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p.1 #2 · Unusual Goose ID Please

It looks quite Canada-Goose like... How rare are hybridizations with these?

Nov 19, 2008 at 08:05 PM

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p.1 #3 · Unusual Goose ID Please

Usually people are fast to jump onto the ID threads. Perhaps this is a tricky one...

I'll give it a bump for the mid-evening.

Nov 20, 2008 at 02:39 AM

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p.1 #4 · Unusual Goose ID Please

Josh S wrote:
It looks quite Canada-Goose like... How rare are hybridizations with these?

Not uncommon at all. Looks like a mutt to me.

Ken

Nov 20, 2008 at 02:45 AM

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p.1 #5 · Unusual Goose ID Please

It's a canada goose, for sure, it's eyeballs are not pink, so it isn't an "edgar winter" form, but definitely it is unique. I live in canada and have never seen one like this, cool stuff

Nov 20, 2008 at 02:49 AM

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p.1 #6 · Unusual Goose ID Please

Josh,
Just to let you know that your thread was not been ignored, I spent some time yesterday trawling through some websites looking for an ID and I am sure others did too but I agree its a tricky one. I never knew there were so many sub-species of the Canada Goose but I could not find anything there or in related species that matched the coloring of this one. One distinguishing feature here are the orangey legs as compared to the black ones of the Canada Goose and I saw no reference to that at all.
Good luck with your search.
Martin

Nov 20, 2008 at 06:46 AM

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p.1 #7 · Unusual Goose ID Please

This is a barnacle goose, or a hybrid between a canada goose and a barnacle goose.

Nov 20, 2008 at 01:58 PM

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p.1 #8 · Unusual Goose ID Please

Looks like a Greater White-fronted x Canada Goose Hybrid
That body is just like a white-fronted; the legs and scapulars really show it.

Nov 20, 2008 at 02:19 PM

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p.1 #9 · Unusual Goose ID Please

Martin Good wrote:
Josh,
Just to let you know that your thread was not been ignored, I spent some time yesterday trawling through some websites looking for an ID and I am sure others did too but I agree its a tricky one. I never knew there were so many sub-species of the Canada Goose but I could not find anything there or in related species that matched the coloring of this one. One distinguishing feature here are the orangey legs as compared to the black ones of the Canada Goose and I saw no reference to that at all.
Good luck with your search.
Martin

Ah, I didn't think that it was being ignored. Rather, I figured that it wasn't an obvious goose-blend.

Interesting for sure.

Nov 20, 2008 at 04:55 PM

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Doug Hitchcox wrote:
Looks like a Greater White-fronted x Canada Goose Hybrid
That body is just like a white-fronted; the legs and scapulars really show it.
I agree. Page 77 of Sibley shows that hybrid and while that example is not identical looking to this bird it implies such hybrids occur.

Nov 20, 2008 at 04:58 PM

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