Re: [nfc-l] Canada/Cackling Goose ID request, Solvang, CA (USA)

2019-10-04 Thread Wim van Dam 
Yes, that sounds right. (Marshall Iliff emailed me as well and he agrees
with you.)

Where I live (Santa Barbara County, CA) we don't have groups of feral
Greater White-fronted and in the winter we have only a few of them, which
is way I did not consider GWf. It turns out, though, that in fall Santa
Barbara is fly-over county for them as they are making their way to their
wintering ground further south.

Thanks again for helping to resolve this ID.

Wim

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 5:48 PM David Irons  wrote:

> These sound like Greater White-fronteds, perhaps some feral Anser geese
> that are non-native. They are definitely not Cackling Geese.
>
> Dave Irons
> Beaverton, OR
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 2, 2019, at 6:24 PM, Wim van Dam  wrote:
>
> Last Saturday night (2019-09-28, at about 1AM) I recorded several flocks
> of geese flying over my backyard in Solvang, California (USA). I would
> expect these to be Canada Goose, but they don't sound right for that (too
> high, no honking). So now I'm wondering if these are in fact Cackling
> Goose, which would be interesting given the size of the flock. Here is my
> best recording:
>
> https://www.xeno-canto.org/500506
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions what these are, and why? Probably
> (hopefully) we have to get to the subspecies level to sort this out. The
> original .WAV file is 7MB and I'll be happy to email it to those
> interested.
>
> Thanks
>
> Wim van Dam
> Solvang, CA (USA)
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Re: [nfc-l] Canada/Cackling Goose ID request, Solvang, CA (USA)

2019-10-03 Thread David Irons 
These sound like Greater White-fronteds, perhaps some feral Anser geese that 
are non-native. They are definitely not Cackling Geese.

Dave Irons
Beaverton, OR

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 2, 2019, at 6:24 PM, Wim van Dam 
mailto:wim.van@gmail.com>> wrote:

Last Saturday night (2019-09-28, at about 1AM) I recorded several flocks of 
geese flying over my backyard in Solvang, California (USA). I would expect 
these to be Canada Goose, but they don't sound right for that (too high, no 
honking). So now I'm wondering if these are in fact Cackling Goose, which would 
be interesting given the size of the flock. Here is my best recording:

https://www.xeno-canto.org/500506

Does anybody have any suggestions what these are, and why? Probably (hopefully) 
we have to get to the subspecies level to sort this out. The original .WAV file 
is 7MB and I'll be happy to email it to those interested.

Thanks

Wim van Dam
Solvang, CA (USA)
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RE: [nfc-l] Canada/Cackling Goose ID request, Solvang, CA (USA)

2019-10-02 Thread Gary Allport 
Hi

They sound more like white-fronts to me

Gary

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Subject: [nfc-l] Canada/Cackling Goose ID request, Solvang, CA (USA)

Last Saturday night (2019-09-28, at about 1AM) I recorded several flocks of 
geese flying over my backyard in Solvang, California (USA). I would expect 
these to be Canada Goose, but they don't sound right for that (too high, no 
honking). So now I'm wondering if these are in fact Cackling Goose, which would 
be interesting given the size of the flock. Here is my best recording:

https://www.xeno-canto.org/500506

Does anybody have any suggestions what these are, and why? Probably (hopefully) 
we have to get to the subspecies level to sort this out. The original .WAV file 
is 7MB and I'll be happy to email it to those interested.

Thanks

Wim van Dam
Solvang, CA (USA)
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