Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:58:06 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Re: Harford/Cecil birds 1/21/04 (small goose) In-Reply-To: <019201c3e133$ae799090$9ba1c7cf@mdatlasxz1p6g> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit We found a Cackling Canada Goose at the mouth of Hunting Creek two winters ago (with other Canadas) -- it was well-photographed by Jonathan Alderfer and submitted to the MD/DC Records Committee. It was accepted as "correct identification" but not accepted on basis of origin because investigations indicated that this is a fairly common bird in wildfowl collections. One obvious characteristic of this bird, other than tiny size, was its very deep purplish breast color which showed very little contrast with the black neck. Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper Silver Spring, MD on 01/22/2004 5:04 PM, Walter Ellison at rossgull@CROSSLINK.NET wrote: > Hi All, > > Small, very dark Canada Geese in all respects similar to Cackling > Geese have been photographed on at least two occasions in northwestern > Vermont. Intergrades with other subspecies, particularly Dusky, could > not be ruled out from the photos and descriptions. Origin was also an > issue, as it always is with rare waterfowl. > > Richardson's is the palest of the small Canada subspecies, paler than > most of our regular East Coast subspecies; and Cackling is one of the > darkest Canada Goose subspecies. > > Stay Warm, > > Walter Ellison > > 23460 Clarissa Road > Chestertown, MD 21620 > phone: 410-778-9568 > e-mail: rossgull@crosslink.net > > "A person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast" - E. > B. White (in "Stuart Little") > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Ringler" > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:56 PM > Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Harford/Cecil birds 1/21/04 (small goose) > > >> Chris, >> Do you have more details of the plumage of your small goose? Size > alone >> will not be enough to identify it. Correct me if I am wrong but I >> believe Cackling Goose has never before been found in the East. >> >> Bob Ringler > > ====================================================================== > = > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================