RE: [SBB] canada goose with abnormal coloring.

["Alvaro Jaramillo" <[[email protected]]>]

Chuq

  I think your goose is likely a domestic goose or offspring from a domestic
goose. One feature that sets the Branta geese (Canada, Cackling, Brant,
Barnacle, Red-breasted, Nene) apart from the other true geese is that they
have black legs. The Anser geese, which include domestics, as well as the
Chen Geese which are very closely related to Anser have orange or pink legs.
Apart from the patchy brown and white coloration which suggests a domestic,
the orange legs also suggest something other than a Canada Goose, at least a
pure Canada Goose. 

Cheers

Al

Alvaro Jaramillo
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Half Moon Bay, CA

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> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:56 PM
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> Subject: [SBB] canada goose with abnormal coloring.
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> 
> Laurie had said she'd seen a goose flying out of central park (santa
> clara) that had weird coloring, so we wandered over to the pond to
> see if we could find it. Here's a photo:
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuqui/50099749/
> 
> it's clearly a canada goose with a color mutation (the photo's not
> great, but all I had was the treo -- the goose is centered).
> 
> FWIW, there were easily 125 geese at the pond today, plus the normal
> selection of mallards, mallard hybrids and domestic refugee ducks --
> and two confused seagulls.
> 
> 
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