TROPIC and NEAR-TROPIC BIRD COLLECTION

Domestic Greylag Goose Domestic Greylag Goose-Anser anser domesticus Domestic Greylag Goose-Anser anser domesticus, Order ANSERIFORMES - Family ANATIDAE - Subfamily Anserinae. The Greylag Goose, a native of northern and central Eurasia, has been domesticated and raised for meat for over 1,000 years. It can be white, completely gray (like the wild form), or somewhere in-between.  Dozens of domestic breeds exist, with lots of variation in size and coloring.  (In some the coloring is sex-linked, with females having gray patches and the males always white!) It was taking a bath! (photo: Feb 27, 2004) For more info: http://birds.cornell.edu/crows/domgeese.htm

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Photos Copyright R. Hays Cummins. Authorization required. For permission, contact bigbendwildlands@gmail.com

Sources of species identification and other amazing info include (1) Cornell Lab of Ornithology--a fantastic site; (2)Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Peterson Field Guide Series, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company; (3) The National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide to Birds and (4) Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.