Egyptian Goose?

[KeenTeen17]

Is this Egyptian Goose or some weird hybrid?

[Dogghound]

Its a swangoose Anser cygnoides. Orginally they are from mongolia, but many are kept captive as part of collections etc.

[natureguy]

thats a domestic chinese goose kt
the wild form lacks the knob at the base of the bill.

[G HUNT 2]

I understand that there is still a wild population of Swan Geese that breed in north China and southeast Siberia and winter in central and eastern China.(As natureguy says the domesticated bird is called a Chinese Goose.)

[Africa]

I remember seeing those in East Park (Hull) a few years ago. They did look domesticated - fatter - than the wild greylags. Not a very handsome bird!

[davidbr]

Indeed, as has already been pointed out, KT's bird is a Chinese Goose, a domesticated form of the Swan Goose that's often given the status of a sub-species in its' own right (as Anser cygnoides domesticus). The shape's a deliberate result of selective breeding, and (I suppose) the reason why there aren't any feral breeding populations of them at large

The genuine Swan Goose, however, is a far more elegant, streamlined bird; plumage-wise they're fairly close to the domestic form, but the shape's totally different. They breed in East Asia (Mongolia, China & parts of Russia) and are one of the world's rarest geese, although they've recently been down-graded from "Endangered" to "Vulnerable" by the IUCN.

They're kept in a lot of Wildfowl Trust centres, though, and I've seen a few genuine Swan Geese in a wild state in the UK over the years. Escapes, obviously; like most feral geese they tend to seek out close relatives, so it's always worth a careful check through any large Canada/Greylag Goose flock on reservoirs etc in search of any hangers-on. Grafham Water (Cambridgeshire) was a reliable site at one time, but I've not been there for a couple of years so have no idea if there are still any about