Re: FW: [canberrabirds] ID please: One goose at Lake Ginniderra this afternoon

[David Rees <>]

Therefore it has remained a native bird of Britain, now augmented by 're-wilded' birds, esp in populated areas.  I am very familiar with say the ones breeding along the Thames from Oxford to Windsor and yes they are quite used to people, along with the Canada Geese and Egyptian Geese which share the same habitat.  Hunting pressure is off, given the supermarket chook is now easier and cheaper to obtain.

David

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

David Reid-Henry(‘The History of the Birds of Britain’)  does indeed say they were present in the warmer periods of the Pleistocene from the Cromerian Interglacial onwards.  However the last wild breeding bird in England disappeared in 1831.  Remnant populations on Scottish islands persisted, but feral populations (if they can be called that), from kept flocks, are said to be distinctly more tameish and to form the major part of the present breeding population.   

 

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Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] ID please: One goose at Lake Ginniderra this afternoon

 

Agree with the ID.  Don't know where you got the 'Introduced to Britain' from.  Native bird there and legally described as such.

 

David

 

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Lindell Emerton <> wrote:

Alison,
Looks like a Greylag Goose to me. Introduced into Britain but a native of Europe and Northern Asia. A local escapee no doubt.

Lindell

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