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Post by practicalsportsman on Nov 18, 2011 21:35:20 GMT -5
I had a friend ask if a cackling goose would be considered a light goose or ?. we have seen many of them with canadian geese, and they look alike exept for the white ring around their neck. Anyone want to answer this one. Attachments:
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Post by duff on Nov 18, 2011 21:41:10 GMT -5
It's a sub species of a Canada Goose. There are about 7 different sub species. It is a dark goose, not a light goose. Not very likely to be in Indiana although many people think they are. Most likely you guys are seeing a smaller interior version and not the true cackling goose. They are malard size birds.
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Post by featherduster on Nov 19, 2011 6:32:35 GMT -5
They too are out of season right now.
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Post by DDragon47 on Nov 19, 2011 12:48:07 GMT -5
Thy make a funny sound
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Post by johnc911 on Nov 21, 2011 2:56:14 GMT -5
They too are out of season right now. Obviously it does not matter to hiim |
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Post by Boilermaker on Nov 21, 2011 9:50:58 GMT -5
Never heard of one before...can't wait til Wednesday when season's in! Anyone know what kind of goose makes more of a high-pitch short honk/squeak? It sounded like a Canada with a rubber band around his neck, lol. Had a flock fly over just before it got dark and could only see dark spots and no color/markings. Any thoughts?
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Post by dadfsr on Nov 21, 2011 9:57:49 GMT -5
Dan and I heard a different kind of calling from some overhead geese yesterday too-I'm not much for keeping up on the different types/subspecies of geese but these were definitely not what I'm used to hearing- couldn't see them so have no clue on the markings.
Did have some sandhill cranes go over while we were working on getting the deer out of the woods yesterday also-isn't it a tad bit late for them to be moving through??
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Post by Boilermaker on Nov 21, 2011 10:03:06 GMT -5
Yeah thought about sandhills but they were low enough i could tell they were some kind of goose. They had the bigger bodies of a large goose and didn't have that obnoxious cackle of a sandhill.
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Post by featherduster on Nov 21, 2011 12:56:59 GMT -5
This year for some unknown reason we have been getting a lot of Snows and Blues migrating through my area.
These geese have a very high pitch call sort of like a Canada goose thats laughing.
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Post by Boilermaker on Nov 21, 2011 15:51:19 GMT -5
featherduster: What part of the state are you from?
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Post by featherduster on Nov 21, 2011 16:35:57 GMT -5
Laporte, county.
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Post by duff on Nov 21, 2011 17:16:23 GMT -5
Snows and speckle bellies have a high pitched call and so do some of the smaller sized canada geese.
Hard to be sure without more description.
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