• HPRSPB2
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Hi! Can anyone help me ID this goose? Thanks!

Hi!

Saw these goose today in Yorkshire.  I wondered which kind they are, and also why there's a 'dangly' bit on the neck!

Any help appreciated!

Thanks so much!

  • nadiac
    Not an expert, but I think they're Swan Geese.
  • HPRSPB2

    In reply to nadiac:

    Thanks! that was definitely one I was leaning towards. There were also two 'bean' geese - but I got a bit lost with comparing the specifics and deciding.

    There is also the 'African' goose I looked at.

    But are the African and Swan goose found usually in the UK?  

  • ItisaRobbo

    In reply to HPRSPB2:

    Swan geese and they're not wild. Escapees or feral? Scaling dam by any chance? Two are there according to a brief internet search. Bean geese would be unusual. Certainly not found any on bird sightings for that area, though I've only briefly searched. Sure they weren't pink feet (or greylag)?

  • HPRSPB2

    In reply to ItisaRobbo:

    It was Ulley Reservoir near Rotherham.

    Feet definitely orange not pink, and I don't think Greylag/Pink Feet have the stripe down the neck, white around the beak etc.

    It looks like the neck bit is a dewlap.

    If it is Swan/African/Chinese though they seem to have large lumps above the beaks, whereas there is only a small one on the geese we saw.

    Thanks.
  • Germain
    Chinese Goose - female

    Cin J

  • ItisaRobbo
    I can't tell whether they're domestic descendants of swan geese or just feral/escaped, so happy with any of swan/African/Chinese choices. I also suspect the 'bean geese' are feral/domestic. Happy to i.d. from photos but it's not somewhere I'd expect wild bean geese to be, and they don't fit the description. Law of averages is also very much against it being them.
  • Rishaan Shah
    I'd say Chinese Geese.