Subject: [Tweeters] WF x Can Goose Hybrid?
Date: Apr 14 18:24:56 2005
From: SGMlod at aol.com - SGMlod at aol.com


Greetings

Seems to be a rash of these things. All photos sent to me (none from
Nisqually) have been of Graylag (actually, descendents thereof) and Canada.

One way to separate these is that the domestic hybrid is a big bird.
Typically they breed with our resident moffitti geese, so that they are at least as
large as such, and they are stout.

WFGeese don't breed where moffitti does. They breed where small and
intermediate Cackling/Canadas do (in the west, minima, taverneri, and parvipes). So, a
WFGO x Canada or Cackling should be WFGO in size or smaller and no more robust
in appearance than a WFGO.

Harry Lehto's excellent website ( http://users.utu.fi/hlehto/photo/hybrid/ )
has pictures of several Graylag x Canada Goose plus at least one WFGO x Canada
(don't know which race; may have been in captivity and thus the Canada may
have been a larger race).

Cheers
Steven Mlodinow
Everett WA