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San Diego County, California, US Aleutian Cackling Goose in the front-left with a Canada Goose in the back. Photo taken after dusk with help of car headlights and flash.
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Large numbers of this once endangered bird. Wonderful to see them.
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Brief description of what you observed
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Goose in the middle wearing neck collar 2E3
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Goose in the middle wearing neck collar 2E3
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Wearing a fashionable blue neck collar 2E3 and standing beside a Snow Goose. (Snow Goose in separate observation). An email back on the collar reports that this bird was hatched in 2013 and is a male. Nice to know.
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Wearing a fashionable blue neck collar 2E3 and standing beside a Snow Goose. (Snow Goose in separate observation). An email back on the collar reports that this bird was hatched in 2013 and is a male. Nice to know.
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2nd Lifer-of-the-Day. Have @gyrrlfalcon to thank for pursuing this. Donna's husband monitored this species years back after it's #'s dropped drastically low. We saw one with a blue #'d collar ( Photo's #2,3 & 4.)
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2nd Lifer-of-the-Day. Have @gyrrlfalcon to thank for pursuing this. Donna's husband monitored this species years back after it's #'s dropped drastically low. We saw one with a blue #'d collar ( Photo's #2,3 & 4.)
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2nd Lifer-of-the-Day. Have @gyrrlfalcon to thank for pursuing this. Donna's husband monitored this species years back after it's #'s dropped drastically low. We saw one with a blue #'d collar ( Photo's #2,3 & 4.)
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2nd Lifer-of-the-Day. Have @gyrrlfalcon to thank for pursuing this. Donna's husband monitored this species years back after it's #'s dropped drastically low. We saw one with a blue #'d collar ( Photo's #2,3 & 4.)
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Most people consider the Aleutian Cackling Goose the most handsome of the Canada/Cackling Goose complex, but this bird was brought to the brink of extinction when foxes were introduced to the several breeding islands that supported the world's population. By the late 1960s, only a few hundred birds were left. A recovery program was implemented, removing the introduced foxes from these islands, re-introductions, and closing hunting of all small white-cheeked geese in the Pacific flyway. My husband was a member of the monitoring team during these early years, following the small flock of geese from their fall arrival in Crescent City, CA to Colusa and Modesto, CA where he entire population wintered. Without this protection, a single detrimental event could have wiped them out forever. The recovery program has been very successful and they have been delisted. The current population is over 100,000 birds.
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Most people consider the Aleutian Cackling Goose the most handsome of the Canada/Cackling Goose complex, but this bird was brought to the brink of extinction when foxes were introduced to the several breeding islands that supported the world's population. By the late 1960s, only a few hundred birds were left. A recovery program was implemented, removing the introduced foxes from these islands, re-introductions, and closing hunting of all small white-cheeked geese in the Pacific flyway. My husband was a member of the monitoring team during these early years, following the small flock of geese from their fall arrival in Crescent City, CA to Colusa and Modesto, CA where he entire population wintered. Without this protection, a single detrimental event could have wiped them out forever. The recovery program has been very successful and they have been delisted. The current population is over 100,000 birds.
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Small size, small bill, white ring on neck. Hanging out with the Sandhill Cranes rather than the Canada Geese. Also a big flock overhead.
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Small size, small bill, white ring on neck. Hanging out with the Sandhill Cranes rather than the Canada Geese. Also a big flock overhead.
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Small size, small bill, white ring on neck. Hanging out with the Sandhill Cranes rather than the Canada Geese. Also a big flock overhead.
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Small size, small bill, white ring on neck. Hanging out with the Sandhill Cranes rather than the Canada Geese. Also a big flock overhead.
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With GWFG in second pic
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