Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:24:00 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mary Ann Todd Subject: The hybrid goose MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I saw the duck reported from Pennyfield recently. It was just upstream from Seneca on Sunday. White, with a pearly gray mantle and wing coverts, petite rounded head, gray-blue bill with pinkish base. It was also slightly larger than a Canada Goose, with a thicker neck. It is obviously not a leucistic White-cheeked Pintail. The primaries and secondaries are entirely whitish, so it is not a Snow Goose either. It does not look like typical farm/Greylag birds, but it certainly is a domestic hybrid goose of some sort. Dave ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================