What kind of bird is this..huge goose! (NF)

[bigfish1965]

I saw this bird tonite. It was huge. Almost swan sized...much bigger than a Canada Goose. The colours were exactly like a seagulls..

I looked through the Ducks Unlimited site and saw nothing close. Maybe some kind of hybrid??

[irishfield]

Maybe you'd been drinkin Rick and it didnt' really look like that ! lol

[bigfish1965]

Maybe..lol..but my camera was sober.

[Bondar]

LOL that goose is pretty famous i think i've seen his picture on every board around now haha

thats from queenston different bird but similar

[Mattitude]

Looks like a Snow Goose to me.

http://www.alandsuejohnson.com/assateague%...s/scan0051.html

[irishfield]

Maybe..lol..but my camera was sober.

 

LOL.. looks like some version of a Snow Goose.

[bigfish1965]

Because of the different bill, I was thinking snow/domestic cross. There should be no snow geese here this time of year.

[Bondar]

i just figured it was some kind of farm escape artist

[dave524]

It is a domestic goose , looks like it has a lot of Greylag Goose in it, maybe something else, Heinz 57 of the goose world.

[kickingfrog]

LOL! The add at the bottom of this page when I looked was something called Duck Duck date.

[ptmpete]

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[Bondar]

winner winner

 

 

 

i should have scooped him in my Landing net they sell for 19.50 LOL

Edited May 13, 2009 by Wiser

[Ron]

Domestic Greylag Goose it is...

 

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/domgeese.htm

[irishfield]

So there ya go Rick.. you can kill it and eat it ! Cut your grocery bill now bud..

[bigugli]

Domestic and wild geese interbreed quite easily. Maybe a little Snow, a little Greylag, a little ?...

[dave524]

These guys interbreed with a Canada's , we've got a couple down at the mouth of Forty Mile Creek, then things really get interesting

hence my former Heinz 57 comment

 

http://www.flickr.com/groups/hybridbirds/d...57601783757808/

[Greencoachdog]

His/her name is BIG BIRD!!!

 

 

... kin to MTP I think...

[smokin joe]

That one's the supper goose

[young_one]

Grey Goose, hopefully the same kind they sell at LCBO (expensive vodka)

[dave524]

 

this is the greylag/canada cross from Forty Creek, he has been there a few years now, sired a few offspring I think

Edited May 13, 2009 by dave524

[l2p]

that thing has teeth!! saw a show on the dicovery channel about people altering fertilized chicken eggs by adding "dinosour" genes into the embreyo and they hatched a "chicken" with a long tail talons and teeth. kinda messed up in my opinion.