Greater White-fronted Goose - Chris Wood
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Location

10743–10761 State Route 3, Adams US-NY (43.8854,-76.1544)
Jefferson, New York, United States
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Map
Map Coordinates: 43.885378, -76.154379
Age
Not specified
Sex
Not specified

Media notes

Middle bird. The bird had a bit more black barring on the belly than what you can see, with at least three broad black bands.

Observation details

**Rare. We had pulled over to look through an interesting mixed flock of geese that was comprised of both Canada and Snow Geese, when I noticed this bird. I first detected it by the presence of at least broad black bars on the belly. After this, I saw the bright orange feet and a pinkish-orange bill with white border between the bill and the rest of the face. Unfortunately, I only saw the bird well for a couple seconds before I attempted to exit car and give (very bad) directions to where bird was in the flock and obtain photos as bird flew with flock rapidly to the north. We turned around to try to meet the flock again, but it flew NNW and headed out over open water and we were not able to find the flock again. Bad but diagnostic photos. Notes added by CLW 25 March 2019.

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