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Greylag Goose

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Description:

Geese

2 Species ID Suggestions

Domestic Goose
Anser anser domesticus Confusing Domestic Geese
Greylag Goose
Anser anser Greylag Goose


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3 Comments

ckclvn
ckclvn 10 years ago

Thank you both.

I am of the opinion that all four are of the domestic variety, which were bred mainly from Greylags up to a thousand years ago with some hybridisation thrown into the mix. A lot of domestics still look like Greylags but only DNA testing is likely to prove one way or the other in mixed flocks such as this. A good rule of thumb is that Greylags generally migrate but domestics do not.

Samuel Hartman
Samuel Hartman 10 years ago

Well that suggestion is for the the one sitting down in the first image.

ckclvn
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ckclvn

Pearland, Texas, USA

Spotted on Sep 21, 2013
Submitted on Sep 21, 2013

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