Subject: Snow Goose Mis-ID -- need correct ID
Date: Feb 8 10:11:59 2001
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


The white form of domestic "Chinese" Goose (Anser cygnoides)

Franny Drobny wrote:
>
> Hi Tweets:
>
> Attached is a picture from the latest issue of the Monroe Monitor newspaper
> showing a man holding a goose that has been mis-identified as a Snow Goose
> (with a cute story attached). I checked my bird books and can't find the
> right ID. It looks to me like some kind of domesticated goose. If it is a
> snow goose, I've never seen one that ever looked like that, and I've seen
> thousands of them.
>
> http://www.monroemonitor.com/weekly%20pages/February%200701/feb%200701.html
> <http://www.monroemonitor.com/weekly%20pages/February%200701/feb%200701.html
> >
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Franny Drobny
> Seattle, Washington
> fdrobny at cairncross.com <mailto:fdrobny at cairncross.com>
>
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