Graylags?

DragonFire

DragonFire

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We were out hunting deer yesterday when we came across a field which held about 5,000 Canadas. While we stood on the road watching them, I notice these five(5th one off camera) different geese on the edge of the flock. We`ve never seen them around here before. Are they Graylags? Anybody?
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They look like hybrid domestic/ canada geese. I have seen some similar geese at a monastery farm near here years ago. Some male canadas mated with the domestic white geese, the offspring could fly like a canada and were a washed out colour like those. That's my theory anyway. I saw gray lags in Germany last winter, they look just like our speckle belly geese without the specs. these don't look like that from what I can see.
 
The hybrids I've seen are very similar to Canada geese, except they are lighter in colour. Very likely that is what these are. Wouldn't be a bad idea to cull them (easier said than done) so they don't keep inter-breeding.
 
the spank said:
Hard to see detail in that small of a photo but they don't appear to look like Graylags. They look more like Hybrids or Leucistic Canada geese. Either way they need to be taken out of the gene pool! I say go get them.....:D
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"Leucistic" - I had to look that up, and to save you the trouble:

Leucism is a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in animals and humans. Unlike albinism, it is caused by a reduction in all types of skin pigment, ...
 
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