Jodi Nielson Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Made a road trip to Texas between Christmas and New Years. The pics are terrible, taken from a moving car--the husband was driving. There were hundreds in the fields off I-40 between Little Rock and Memphis. Thought maybe someone from around there could enlighten me on what they were. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 (edited) They look like Snow Geese to me. White bodies, black wingtips; you can make out pink bills on a couple of the well-lit ones. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/snow_goose eBird shows several reports of large flocks in east AR this winter. https://ebird.org/map/snogoo?neg=true&env.minX=-91.96226064002838&env.minY=34.37144785756323&env.maxX=-90.67043728082206&env.maxY=35.181040218450484&zh=true&gp=true&ev=Z&mr=12-2&bmo=12&emo=2&yr=range&byr=2020&eyr=2021 Edited January 22, 2021 by Charlie Spencer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jefferson Shank Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 They look like Snow Geese to me. White bodies, black wingtips; you can make out pink bills on a couple of the well-lit ones. yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 15 hours ago, Jefferson Shank said: yes yep! snow geese,but how do we rule out Ross's? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelLong Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Ross's would be smaller, assuming that the flock is primarily Snow we would probably notice a Ross's, especially in flight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexHenry Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 1 hour ago, IKLland said: yep! snow geese,but how do we rule out Ross's? There’s lots of Blue Morph in there. Blue Morph Ross’s are very rare, so it’s pretty safe to assume that they are all Snow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLecy Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 The bird in the center top, just to the right of the blue morph SNGO looks like a possible ROGO based on size. But since these photos are poor, that could simply be a photographic illusion/artifact. Without better documentation, I would leave them all as SNGO or even more conservatively as Snow/Ross's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodi Nielson Posted January 23, 2021 Author Share Posted January 23, 2021 Thanks all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 11 hours ago, AlexHenry said: There’s lots of Blue Morph in there. Blue Morph Ross’s are very rare, so it’s pretty safe to assume that they are all Snow But the very distant ones might have a few Ross’s in there, there is just no way to tell of the far ones, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jefferson Shank Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 there is just no way to tell of the far ones, right? Correct. But they are most likely Snow Geese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 3 minutes ago, Jefferson Shank said: Correct. But they are most likely Snow Geese. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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