canberrabirds

Mystery duck (revealed!)

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Subject: Mystery duck (revealed!)
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:18:03 +1000

The National Zoo and Aquarium sends out a specialist team to retrieve the Egyptian Goose:

 

E Goose3035.jpg

 

From: John Brannan [
Sent: Monday, 4 June 2007 10:16 AM
To: Lashko Susan
Cc: Mark Clayton; COG list
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Mystery duck (revealed!)

 

Sue,

I just called them and they are indeed short one Egyptian Goose. The woman I spoke to said she would "let their keepers know right away". Whether that means they will actually retrieve the bird -- who knows?

John Brannan



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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