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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