Please can anyone identify this Bird?

Danburge1961 · #1 (**permalink**) 20-11-2011, 06:49 PM

Hi Guys/Girls.
Can anyone identify this bird, same size and shape as a Barnacle Goose and some similarities in colouring.
But feet and beak are wrong colour plus the stripes along neck are not in keeping with the Barnacle.
Hope someone can help
Regards Dan

2dogs2000 · #2 (**permalink**) 20-11-2011, 06:51 PM

Hi. Welcome to WAB. Your goose is a bar headed goose.

ChrisJB · #3 (**permalink**) 20-11-2011, 06:52 PM

A bar-headed goose. An escapee.

Chris

Blenkas · #4 (**permalink**) 20-11-2011, 06:56 PM

Bar Headed Goose. Not on the British list but escaped birds do occur occasionally.

Danburge1961 · #5 (**permalink**) 20-11-2011, 06:59 PM

Hi Guys.
Thanks for speedy response and valuable info Its Been driving me mad for a while.
Can't understand why i couldn't find the info browsing the bird identifier the RSPB provide?
Thanks again guys and thanks for the welcome.
Regards Dan

I've had the pic ages and took it at Kew Gardens which may explain the escapee Tag.
Maybe they imported it. Cheers again

aeshna5 · #6 (**permalink**) 20-11-2011, 07:13 PM

There's a few Bar-headed Geese at Kew, though less than there used to be. Some of them are fully winged while some are pinioned as they should be. Possibly small groups that have turned up in the wild parts of the London Wetland Centre have come from Kew.

There was one bird that was paired with a Lesser Whitefront that has produced some hybrid young which tend to resemble the latter parent.

Blenkas · #7 (**permalink**) 20-11-2011, 07:14 PM

Presumably it's not on the RSPB identifier as they don't occur naturally in the wild in the UK, however a decent bird guide, such as Collins, will show them as there is the possibility of seeing escapes.