Subject: Red-breasted sapsucker, ? goose
Date: Feb 11 16:03:08 1995
From: Ter Ellingson - ellingsn at u.washington.edu


I've looked unsuccessfully several times for the Red-breasted sapsucker
reported on the UW campus two weeks ago. Has anyone seen it since?

While looking a few days ago, I saw an unusual goose - general size
and coloring like a Canada, but with black only on the top of the head
and back of the neck, mottled gray-white on the rest of head and neck.
No white chinstrap, but a white ring around the bill like a greater
white-fronted; broad white crescent-shaped bands at the shoulders,
something like those on a Steller's sea eagle, and yellow legs and feet.
Is it a domestic, or a hybrid? Thanks.

Ter Ellingson ellingsn at u.washington.edu