Subject: Geese question
Date: Nov 5 19:02:04 2003
From: Charlie Wright - charlie at birdwright.com


Hello all,
Actually, there are no reports (accepted or otherwise) of Bean Goose in
California. There is an apparently accepted record of the species from
Nebraska.

Cheers,
--
Charlie Wright
Sumner, WA
charlie at birdwright.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Donahue" <mgd at u.washington.edu>
To: <gbenton at rockisland.com>; "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: Geese question

> Gayle,
> The Pink-footed Goose breeds in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard and
> winters in NW Europe. The Bean Goose breeds from Scandanavia east to
> Siberia and winters in western and central Europe. So I suppose it could
> be summed up as: which is more likely, a Siberian stray (Bean Goose) or a
> Greenland stray (Pink-footed Goose)?
>
> In addition to the Bean record from Bowerman Basin last winter, they've
> been recorded in California as well as western Alaska. The Pink-footed has
> only occured in the northeastern US and Canada (someone correct me if I'm
> wrong) and not even all of those records have been accepted.
>
> I'm not saying these AREN'T wild strays, but I think geographic range as
> well as previous pattern of vagrancy is why the origin of the Pink-footed
> is more in question.
>
> Mike Donahue
> Seattle
>