geese id

[michael23]

Hi everyone, i should know the answer to this, but i just cant think!

Thanks.

[Colin Key]

Bean Geese, I think, Michael.

Colin

[MichaelF]

Greylags, with that pale grey patch on the outer forewing. Bean has an all-dark upperwing.

[michael23]

thanks very much, i just couldnt decide between pink foot or greylags.

[marklhawkes]

Another confirmation for Greylag Goose

[michael23]

thanks marklhawkes

[Colin Key]

But is there not too much white around the "nether regions" for Greylag (looking especially at the left-hand bird in Michael's second shot)?

Colin :err:


Not too familiar with geese down here (although have had two Brent in the past 13 years), and can't get a real "bronze" turkey, so we have settled for a a duck (indeterminate species) for Christmas Day!!

[nickderry]

greylags for me

[Sherpa]

Another vote for Greylag.

[appleton.dave]

But is there not too much white around the "nether regions" for Greylag (looking especially at the left-hand bird in Michael's second shot)?

I'm interested by the question as it implies an ID feature to look for that I'm not currently aware of - exactly which tracts do you mean by the "nether regions"? Which of the "nether regions" should be more extensively white on a Bean Goose than on a Greylag?

Anyway, whatever the question means, the answer must be no as these birds are clearly Greylags. Among other things, the contrastingly pale underwing-coverts clinch the birds where you can't see the pale outer forewing which Michael mentioned.

[MichaelF]

And anyway, it's derbyshire, not the nether lands . . . :laugh: