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03-11-2008, 04:21 PM
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| | | Unidentified wildfowl
Taken at Petworth Park last Friday. Its call was very loud, almost like a 70s airhorn... any ideas?
Many thanks,
Ian 
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03-11-2008, 04:23 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified wildfowl
I think this could be an Egyptian Goose.
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03-11-2008, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Wild-Woman  I think this could be an Egyptian Goose. | and you're right  |
03-11-2008, 04:31 PM
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Agree with WW and GC
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03-11-2008, 04:42 PM
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Agree with WW, GC and LM  |
03-11-2008, 04:42 PM
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Brilliant!
Many thanks all
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03-11-2008, 04:49 PM
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heh they are noisey and aggressive! ABout the only thing other than swans that stands up to canada geese! |
03-11-2008, 05:04 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified wildfowl
Most definitely an Egyptian...imported a hundred of so years ago to pretty up formal
estates or parkland..thanks for that, and it has inspirered me to start a new thread |
03-11-2008, 06:13 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified wildfowl
Yes, another alien introduction that we are stupidly tolerating! By the time we realise that they are using all the holes in riverbank trees that used to be used by barn and tawny owls and eating our native birds out of existence we will have a large problem on our hands and then, because by that time here will be so many of them, all the well intentioned but ill-informed animal lovers (not nature lovers!) will be up-in-arms when a true nature lover suggests a cull.
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03-11-2008, 07:02 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified wildfowl
Sorry to ask the obvious here... but this is a male, right? 
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