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From: edm@vrdxhq.verdix.com (Ed Matthews)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: What Kind of Goose Did I See?
Keywords: goose, escape
Message-ID: <37242@vrdxhq.verdix.com>
Date: 13 Aug 90 11:42:57 GMT
Organization: Verdix Corporation, Chantilly,  VA
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I was out on the Potomac River Saturday morning just above Washington DC.
I saw five feral geese of a persuasion with which I am not familiar.  They
looked just like white snow geese, only no black primaries and no black on
the bill.  They were too large to be Ross' and this is too early in the
year for us to be seeing migrants.  One had a large, circular, blue patch 
on the back of its head.  I am assuming these are escapes -- anybody 
familiar enough with domesticated geese to hazard a guess as to what they are?
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Ed Matthews                                                edm@verdix.com
Verdix Corporation Headquarters                            (703) 378-7600
Chantilly, Virginia