This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_01BE29BF.5CB34F20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This past week, my wife and I drove to Eastern Neck NWR to see the Cinnamon Teals, male and female. They were/are certainly beautiful. While driving on Route 20 near Fairlee, we saw a flock of Canada Geese in a field and noticed one that seemed to be wearing a different kind of neck band. We had a fleeting look and quickly turned around and came back for a closer one. Instead of a neck band, this goose had an all white neck (not totally so as there was some speckling.). Its body was like that of the other geese but not the neck. Has anyone else seen this bird? Is this some type of partial albinism, a result of hybridization or is there some other explination? Ben Poscover ------=_NextPart_000_01BE29BF.5CB34F20 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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This past =
week, my wife and I drove to Eastern Neck NWR to see the Cinnamon Teals, =
male and female. They were/are certainly beautiful. =
While driving on Route 20 near Fairlee, we saw a =
flock of Canada Geese in a field and noticed one that seemed to be =
wearing a different kind of neck band. We had a fleeting look and =
quickly turned around and came back for a closer one. Instead of a =
neck band, this goose had an all white neck (not totally so as there was =
some speckling.). Its body was like that of the other geese but =
not the neck. Has anyone else seen this bird? Is this some =
type of partial albinism, a result of hybridization or is there some =
other explination?
Ben Poscover