Canada Goose Branta canadensis (larger feral forms)

This page mainly deals with the larger feral forms of Canada Goose which are variously reported as belonging to races canadensis or maxima or probably a mixture of these two and/or moffitti. It may possibly include some individuals that are wild birds but none that I am able to confidently assign to a subspecies.

Canada Goose, Swanton Morley (Norfolk, UK), 8th March 2008

Canada Goose, Swanton Morley (Norfolk, UK), 16th August 2008

Canada Goose, Lynford (Norfolk, UK), 27th February 2011

Canada Goose gosling, Swanton Morley (Norfolk, UK), 21st June 2008

Canada Goose, Swanton Morley (Norfolk, UK), 3rd May 2008

Birds with abnormal white on the face and around the eye, and often elsewhere on the head, are quite commonly encountered among feral Canada Geese. Such birds are often reported as hybrids, but they are in fact merely leucistic.

leucistic Canada Goose, Cowle's Drove, Hockwold (Norfolk, UK), 2nd May 2009

Canada Goose, Swanton Morley (Norfolk, UK), 25th August 2008

Canada Goose, Leziate (Norfolk, UK), 2nd January 2005

Canada Goose, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 24th August 2019