Subject: Re: Canada Geese Species
Date: Oct 11 20:54:14 1997
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - GODWIT at worldnet.att.net


since you describe this canada goose as very little, it sounds like it
would be the cackling race which go a very smal head ,and also the
smalest.mallard-size. this is the most pretty off all the canada races.
ruth

GODWITT at worldnet.att.net

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> From: ravenn at premier1.net
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Canada Geese Species
> Date: Saturday, October 11, 1997 11:05 AM
>
> Hi all,
> I just finished with an Audubon field trip to the Everett WTP. We
> relocated the Black-headed Gull and added a couple of interesting
> species to my list I posted on Thursday. We saw three Franklin's Gulls
> but did not see the Forster's Tern although someone else saw it.
>
> Today we added:
>
> Thayer's Gull
> Merlin
> Violet-Green Swallows (many of them)
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet
> Western Meadowlark ( Sitting high in a bare tree. A strange place for
> a Meadowlark)
>
> We also found a smaller race of Canada Goose. I could use some help in
> distinguishing the different races. This was a very small goose with a
> petite looking bill. It had a short neck and the black on the neck did
> not go down as far as the larger more familiar race I've seen. I looked
> up my notes on Canada Goose races. Besides the large Columbia Basin
> Canada Geese we should get Dusky, Lesser and Cackling. This goose was
> not dark enough to be a Dusky which I've seen pictures of. Could
> someone share info about the difference between Lesser and the Cackling
> subspecies. This goose looked very comfortable swimming around with
> Ruddy Ducks. Size wise it was larger but not that much larger.
>
> Thanks
> Yvonne
> Everett, Wa
> ravenn at premier1.net