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Id | 3850 | ||||||||||||
Family | Ducks, Geese and Waterfowl ~ Ænder, Gæs og Vandfugle ~ Patos, Gansos, Cisnes y Mergos (Anatidae) | ||||||||||||
Species |
Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) Bramgås ~ Ganso Cariblanco ~ Vitkindad Gås |
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Locality |
Kalvebod Fælled, Denmark
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Date | 2021-12-20 | ||||||||||||
Sex, Age, Comment |
Adult. A completely normal-plumaged Barnacle Gooose with a rather unusual appearance! Eye-catching as it is, it was visible from far away in the strong sunlight. First I was hoping for a weird type of red-breasted hybrid, but knew that the distribution of red was too unusual. So I slowly approached it, and got this result that still leaves me puzzled. Somehow it looks like blood, but it can't be from the bird itself because it was foraging and flying without any difficulties. Then what? Did it land in a blood pool near a whale or seal kill further north? All the birds present today clearly had arrived with the frosty northern winds the last few days, so imaging that it made a long-haul flight from the arctic coast to here, is not unrealistic. Or is it painting? Shot in the breast by a crazy farmer with a paintball gun? It clearly has a large patch of the substance on the breast - sticky and glistening. If it was hit from the front, the paint logically would splash out down toward the belly. And the color in the head and on the bill would be from trying to remove the stuff. |
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Collection | Aberrant | ||||||||||||
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