Subject: white-fronted goose at Bowerman Basin, WA
Date: Nov 20 14:02:42 2003
From: Ian Paulsen - birdbooker at zipcon.net


HI ALL:
This is from Malcolm Ogilvie:
Hi Ian

This is definitely NOT a flavirostris Whitefront. The bill is pink not
orange, the white forehead is too extensive and lacks the usual dark
edging between the white and the rest of the head, while the bird is,
overall, far too pale. It certainly has extensive black barring on the
belly, typical of the majority of flavirostris, but this still falls
within the variation that occurs in, e.g., albifrons and frontalis. In
other words, the extent of the black barring is not diagnostic of any
race.


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Ian Paulsen
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
"Rallidae all the way!"