Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: argo12 on February 22, 2015, 06:29:41 PM

Title: Has me perplexed
Post by: argo12 on February 22, 2015, 06:29:41 PM

Shot on Thames River in London today...
I cant match the brown strip on the back of the neck...

Appreciate your help

Title: Re: Has me perplexed
Post by: Walter Fisher on February 22, 2015, 08:14:16 PM

They appear to be Graylag Geese, or a hybrid thereof.

Walter :)

Title: Re: Has me perplexed
Post by: argo12 on February 22, 2015, 08:59:31 PM

Thanks Walter.
Seems interesting that these geese would be so far away from home.
I may have misled with my location, it is the Thames River in London Ontario!

Thanks for your help

Title: Re: Has me perplexed
Post by: lovemypt on February 22, 2015, 09:17:22 PM

Not so far, they probably came form Story Brook Gardens in Springbank Park.  This species is widely kept as a domestic stock

Title: Re: Has me perplexed
Post by: argo12 on February 22, 2015, 09:29:56 PM

Makes sense, I make myself laugh..
Thank goodness I dont use my name!!!
LOL

Title: Re: Has me perplexed
Post by: thouc on February 22, 2015, 09:50:01 PM

Yes, it's a domestic hybrid. The brown strip is probably from Swan Goose genes mixed in with the Graylag Goose.