Hello Tweeters
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I found this message interesting.Maybe we can find out the origin if this
two birds escaped.There sure act wild beeing so spucky ,flying around a
lot.No one can get close on this birds as so the Bean Goose what we had last
winter.


Ruth Sullivan
From: "Jeff Gilligan" <jeffgill at teleport.com>
To: "obol" <obol at lists.orst.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:58 AM
Subject: [obol] RE: WA Pink-footed Geese and older OR record


> I haven't had time to look at the Bowerman Basin photos. From recent
posts
> the birds have been identified as Pink-footed Geese, which were once
> considered a subspecies of Bean Goose.
>
> This reminds me of a photo from about 20 years ago from the Fern Ridge
> Reservoir area that someone had of a Pink-footed Goose. It was pretty
much
> dismissed as an escapee, but it has always bothered me that greater
> consideration was not given. Perhaps it was a wild bird, and it is my
> presumption that when a bird can get here on its own, that it has done so.
>
> Does anyone know where the Eugene (Fern Ridge) Pink-footed Goose photos
is?
> I think that the OBRC should now consider the record.
>
>
> Jeff Gilligan
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