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Very rare goose seen

6th January 2017 @ 6:06am – by Webteam
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Following our report about three White Fronted Geese earlier in the week seen near Bridge 80 on the canal, a very rare goose has turned up in the same field. John Vickers even managed to get a photo of the Bar Headed Goose, seen here with a Canada Goose for company.

The Bar Headed Goose breeds in Central Asia in colonies of thousands near mountain lakes and winters in South Asia, as far south as India. So, if it is a wild bird it is very much off course. Which suggests, probably, that it is an escapee from a collection somewhere.

Wild vagrants do turn up in Hungary and Russia but it is a popular species in wildfowl collections so that is almost certainly the explanation of this rarity near Audlem and one that will avoid thousands of twitchers turning up locally on a wild goose chase!

They are one of the world's highest flying birds and have been seen at over 27,000 feet.


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