• Adult - brindle markings
  • Immature

Greater White-Fronted Geese

cropped for Birdwatcher's Guide. A comparison with domestic greylag stock may be found here -- note the bolder white ring in front of bill, petite size & barring on belly of adult.

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  1. salma1 (86 months ago | reply)

    Anita, I haven't seen any of these on my river here or the Bay. Thanks for sharing the pic.

  2. Anita363 (86 months ago | reply)

    And you're not likely to! These were taken in the L.A. area, where they are uncommon but regular (most of them winter to the north in CA's Central Valley). They are very rare visitors to the East Coast. That's what's nice about Flickr -- you see all sorts of birds that aren't found in your area.

  3. SparkyLeigh (85 months ago | reply)

    Another good find! You are on a roll!

    I have only seen one of these before, off the westcoast of Canada~ I may have a pick somewhere~

  4. martytdx (85 months ago | reply)

    Another great shot - and good notes as well.

  5. Anita363 (85 months ago | reply)

    This is 1 from the archives -- I just cropped out the domestic geese so I could post it to the new Birdwatcher's Guide group. (I wish Flickr offered a cropping tool, so you wouldn't have to re-upload a cropped version, but no biggie.) But yeah, even in LA these were a good find -- life bird, very exciting.

    Sparky, you have a couple of good bird shots -- I added tags, in case you want to post them to the group (we'd love the white-eye, & the BCNH is of course gorgeous). Feel free to delete 'em if you don't. (And notice, I didn't add Latin names. :-) )

  6. shesnuckinfuts (50 months ago | reply)

    Very nice....
    We get one every year that hangs out with the Canada Geese at our pond.

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  7. Anita363 (50 months ago | reply)

    Interesting -- maybe it's the same bird coming back every year.

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