Goose for ID

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by Rob_D

I know the different colour morphs can interbreed, but do you get intermediate plumage patterns as a result? I thought it was an all or nothing sort of deal with bird colour morphs?

I did now find a picture http://pagesperso-orange.fr/gerard.j.../oieneiges.jpgfrom 2005 in the netherlands showing something very similar looking, also with barnacles, but perhaps it is not exactly the same bird. That site suggests Barnacle x Snow goose. Anyway, I was certainly assuming it is feral or escaped & crossed somehow.

There was a Ross's Goose a few miles away the day before, but I could find that when I passed that area on the way to Hickling.

Apparently (as I remember) the flock I saw in Lydd migrante over to the Netherlands to moult