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Meidum geese

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Subject: Meidum geese
From: Paul Taylor <>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:14:28 +1000
On 18/06/2021 7:06 pm, Aidan Sudbury via Birding-Aus wrote:
In the latest issue of Birdlife, birds from an ancient Egyptian frieze are described as "quite unlike any species known today", but they are almost perfect pictures of Red-breasted Geese.

Aidan Sudbury

I wondered about a hybrid, but this post from March 2021 covers that:

Why the “Red-breasted Meidum Goose” is probably not an extinct species
https://avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/why-the-red-breasted-meidum-goose-is-probably-not-an-extinct-species/

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