Shot these two at a small lake in a park, NW of San Francisco, a few days ago. I'm wondering if the duck is a hybrid mallard. The other one -- some sort of goose??
Being an Aussie I don't know the waterfowl of San Francisco, but I could say that the first looks to me like a domestic, bibbed mallard and the others look like domestic Toulouse (descended from the European Greylag) geese. No dewlaps, so maybe young or not to the "standard" of a good Toulouse.
Glennie
Last edited by Glennie Passier; 11-22-2015 at 04:49 PM.
I'm no good with hybrids so I'll skip the ducks, but the geese look like Greylag geese. I've seen many in the wild, but in Europe. I don't think we have these in the wild in North America. So I'd assume they've escaped from captivity.
There could be specimens here who escaped from captivity -- it's a soup kitchen where people feed the ducks and geese, and there seems to be a pretty steady resident population.
I looked up Glennie's Toulouse goose and the ones I see do look like the Toulouse pictures -- she says it is a Greylag descendant.