Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 23:18:59 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Matt Hafner Subject: Re: Greater White-Fronted Goose at Artemesia Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello everyone, I took a look at the goose at Artemesia today. I easily found a goose that matched the description previously posted. However, I believe the goose to be a Graylag rather than a Greater White-fronted. Somethings I noticed were: The bird was pale gray rather than brown. It's bill was larger than the nearby Canada's and the body was of equal size if not larger. The orange orbital ring around the eye is perfect match for Greylag, but should be lacking on GWFG. Also the pale tip to the bill is characteristic of Graylag and not GWFG. I took some photos of the goose and the breeding plumaged Ruddy Ducks. Matt Hafner College Park, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================