Shot a Strange Canada Today

[jlmatthew]

Went out this afternoon for a quick shoot and bagged a little Canada with an interesting Head/neck and other parts of his body. Never bagged one like this before

 

[fishing4sanity]

For us this year was a very low numbers year for geese, when the geese come in good we get lots of those Canadas, we've always called them cacklers or cackling Canadian geese.

 

[mdhunter]

I shot one of these last week in Maryland and had never seen one either. Fishing for Santity is correct, its a cackling Canadian goose.

 

[RUT JUNKEY]

nice. The hunting /weather hasn't been the best this year. I have shot a ton of geese over the years and never shot one of these. . .nice. Are they about the same size as regular?

 

[jlmatthew]

I was taking about all the white on his head and neck

We winter a lot of these little Cackling Geese (Richardsons) on the eastern plains

 

[Zach]

J, you think it might be a Quills?

 

[jlmatthew]

J, you think it might be a Quills?

No it didnt have the big patches of white like those Quills you see. Having 2nd thoughts now about not sending him to birdman

 

[Nemont]

That is a cool looking goose. Doesn't look like a Quill Lakes goose.

Maybe some Snow goose in his mama's past?

Here are a couple of Quill lakes we shot last year.

 

[Monteman11]

It is definitely one of the species housed under the Cackling Canada Goose subspecies. That being said, the white feathers can be indicative of a lot of things including stress, damage to the feathers and regrowth, and sometimes age.

 

[glass eye]

Ever see a person with snow white patches on their skin ?.....same sorta thing. Lack of melanin in those feathers.