I think that I misaddressed my message of 10/22/94; here' a repeat.

A bird similar to the one described by Dennis Paulson (10/21) turned up
at the Montlake Fill on Sat., Oct. 22.

White head, dark eye, pink bill, white neck and white under tail. Back
and wings were pale tan, with occasional dark feather tips. Orange legs.
This goose was in the company of about 15 other Canada Geese, and seemed
to prefer the company of another abnormal goose which had a brownish
neck, smooth tan cheek patch, and bill and legs of a "sort of mustard-grey"
color. I'll have photographs in a couple of days.

Question: How can you differentiate an "albino" goose from a possible
hybrid? I've seen many geese with various degrees of white mottling on
the neck and head, and occasionally various obvious hybrid specimens, but
this is the first time I've ever seen one that looked like this. To put
the question another way, is this a probable hybrid of Canada and the
white domestic goose (not Greylag)?

Gary DuVall <gduvall at eskimo.com>