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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: cosmo3667 on December 30, 2014, 09:37:19 PM

Title: Not sure if its a Ross's Goose or a Snow Goose
Post by: cosmo3667 on December 30, 2014, 09:37:19 PM
noted today at the upper Ressor's ponds noted 4 of them

(http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/arvopi/RossGoose6_zps201c2d5b.jpg) (http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/arvopi/media/RossGoose6_zps201c2d5b.jpg.html)

(http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/arvopi/RossGoose_zps1e32a841.jpg) (http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/arvopi/media/RossGoose_zps1e32a841.jpg.html)

(http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/arvopi/RossGoose3_zps18337f17.jpg) (http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/arvopi/media/RossGoose3_zps18337f17.jpg.html)

(http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/arvopi/RossGoose2_zps5f43855d.jpg) (http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/arvopi/media/RossGoose2_zps5f43855d.jpg.html)

(http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/arvopi/RossGoose4_zps0c3715b7.jpg) (http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/arvopi/media/RossGoose4_zps0c3715b7.jpg.html)

(http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/arvopi/RossGoose5_zps9e92ef9a.jpg) (http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/arvopi/media/RossGoose5_zps9e92ef9a.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Not sure if its a Ross's Goose or a Snow Goose
Post by: Canoncan on December 31, 2014, 03:17:03 PM
Is it the same bird in all photos?
Title: Re: Not sure if its a Ross's Goose or a Snow Goose
Post by: cosmo3667 on December 31, 2014, 08:24:22 PM
Quote from: "Canoncan"
Is it the same bird in all photos?

they were all together but left at different times so not the same bird
Title: Re: Not sure if its a Ross's Goose or a Snow Goose
Post by: Rotarran on January 01, 2015, 12:38:09 AM
My guess is that they're all Snow Geese except the birds in pictures 3 and 4 which look like Ross' Geese to me.  But I'm not 100% certain.

Edit: oh and happy new year!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Not sure if its a Ross's Goose or a Snow Goose
Post by: Reuven_M on January 01, 2015, 11:50:16 AM
Yes, you have both Snow and Ross's here
Title: Re: Not sure if its a Ross's Goose or a Snow Goose
Post by: cosmo3667 on January 06, 2015, 10:32:50 PM
thank you all for your efforts to help me ID them