There were two Egyptian Geese at the zoo
about 3 weeks ago – maybe there is just one now.
Sue
From: Mark Clayton [
Sent: Sunday, 3 June 2007 8:46 PM
To: 'John Brannan'
Cc: 'COG'
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds]
Mystery duck (revealed!)
G’day again John,
I keep forgetting about Google as a source
of pictures of various birds – just goes to show I am not a great
computer literate! As for the Egyptian Goose locally I don’t know of any records
from the region so perhaps the COG Records Officer could enlighten us as to any
records. It is one of the species that appears to be popular in Europe and as I
said previously, I saw it feral in southern England a few years ago but I
don’t know of any in collections in this part of the world. Perhaps the
National Zoo and Aquarium has (had!!) some.
Anyway glad to be of help.
Cheers,
mark
From: John Brannan [
Sent: Sunday, 3 June 2007 8:11 PM
To: Mark Clayton
Cc: 'COG'
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds]
Mystery duck (revealed!)
Mark Clayton wrote:
Hi
John,
Just a suggestion but do you have a book
that shows the Egyptian Goose? Most of your description, except for the
possible buff coloured ring (how obvious?) around the neck, fits the EG pretty
well.
Brilliant
Mark! I just googled up some photos of the EG, and that's defiinitely what we
saw. The picture here: http://wildflowers-cdrom.com/birds/birdpics/Egyptian_goose.JPG
is the closest likeness to what we saw today. So, is this something that's
often seen around Canberra?
Thanks muchly,
John Brannan
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