Can You Identify This Bird?

[sailsmanship]

We are at a marina on lake Erie and we have this bird that hangs out in the marina from about May to October for the last 4 years. I can't tell what it is. It looks like a cross between a Canadian and a Snow goose. It is the only one like it. We have alot of Canadian geese and Mallard ducks but only one of these. Does anyone know what this is?<br /><br />

 

[jsfinn]

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Looks like a Greylag Goose to me:<br /><br /> http://www.copyright-free-pictures.org.uk/animals/birds/50-greylag-goose.htm

 

[roscoe]

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Thats Mother Goose, read her book once.

 

[Bob_VT]

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Can you say chestnut and sausage stuffed! Slow roasted..... Looks like a christmas goose!

 

[BoatBuoy]

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Greylag:<br /><br />

 

[rolmops]

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We have a few of those here too.<br />It started about 9 years ago when there were canadian,grayleg and barnyard geese in our local pond.They interbred and the next year we had a riot of different colored geese.The whiter ones dissapeared faster than the other ones,probably they were easier visible prey,but we still have a few with white spots returning to the pond.

 

[JB]

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Any goose from Canada is a Canadian goose.<br /><br />Only the birds of that species are Canada geese, even if they spend year-round in USA.<br /><br />I agree with the above; that looks like a greylag to me.

 

[technostingray]

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Originally posted by JB:<br /> Any goose from Canada is a Canadian goose.<br /><br />Only the birds of that species are Canada geese, even if they spend year-round in USA.<br /><br />I agree with the above; that looks like a greylag to me.

Oh, what I could do with that comment. lderbutwiser: <br />Merry Christmas JB.

 

[don flowers]

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It looks like dinner to me.

 

[NOSLEEP]

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Thats the Dodo bird. And I thought they were all<br />extinct.

 

[K5WAS]

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It's an AFLAC

 

[tylerin]

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Greylags are native to the UK. It's a long way from home

 

[sailsmanship]

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Thats what I thought. Is It Possible ?

 

[Kenneth Brown]

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Looks like a match to me.

 

[eeboater]

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Donald.

 

[Reel Poor]

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Could that be a...surely it isnt...it sure looks like it though...I think thats a Duck Duck Goose.

 

[one more cast]

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I believe your mystery bird is a White fronted goose. But the white on the face goes to far back. Could also possibly be a hybrid Canada goose.

 

[Kenneth Brown]

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Originally posted by Reel Poor:<br /> Could that be a...surely it isnt...it sure looks like it though...I think thats a Duck Duck Goose.

That ain't right man, thats just too funny.

 

[KilroyJC]

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Only the birds of that species are Canada geese, even if they spend year-round in USA.

Yeah - and when they are year round in Jersey we call them "*%$#@ *&@#$ Giant Mutant *&% ^#@$ Pigeons"!!!

 

[deeep water]

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it also looks like a muskovie goose