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19-02-2009, 07:43 PM
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| | | Help with Bird ID Please.
Help with Bird ID Please.
About the size of a pink footed goose or slightly smaller, seen at Petworth Park's Main Lake. Eye orange. What seems to be a mated pair.   |
19-02-2009, 07:47 PM
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| | | Re: Help with Bird ID Please.
It's an Egyptian Goose methinks.
Regards, Chris |
19-02-2009, 07:51 PM
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| | | Re: Help with Bird ID Please.
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Originally Posted by ChrisJB  It's an Egyptian Goose methinks.
Regards, Chris | sure is  |
19-02-2009, 08:03 PM
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| | | Re: Help with Bird ID Please.
Thanks Chris and Neil, I see the entry in the back Hume in the rare section now I know what to look for. |
20-02-2009, 08:20 AM
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| | | Re: Help with Bird ID Please.
Those first two photos have a lovely composition - very victorian oil painting |
20-02-2009, 08:32 AM
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| | | Re: Help with Bird ID Please.
Yep an Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiacus
Even though they are not a Goose they are a Duck. |
20-02-2009, 09:38 AM
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| | | Re: Help with Bird ID Please.
definitely egyptian goose - nice pics! |
20-02-2009, 12:18 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nairn,Nairnshire,Scotland
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| | | Re: Help with Bird ID Please.
ID spot on nice pics they have that warm glow to them well done,sort of victorian feel
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20-02-2009, 09:05 PM
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| | | Re: Help with Bird ID Please.
nice piccy |
20-02-2009, 09:10 PM
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| | | Re: Help with Bird ID Please.
Super photo's, Lester! A lovely setting! | | |
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