Egyptian Goose?

[Joel Eade]

Saw a small group of these at a local golf course pond, they have not been there previously so I took a few shots....

[Paul Lagasi]

Doing a search on the Internet and looking through my books it certainly looks like one..The plate below is from my a bird guide from Europe...could be a young one though?

[Joel Eade]

Do think this is just an exotic species someone released?

I don't know another explanation for why a group of them would be migrating through central Kentucky.

I looked at the Kentucky Ornithological Society site and could find no mention of them.

I'm sure this is the correct ID, I found an image and a short article at wikipedia as well.

Thanks for helping.

[Paul Lagasi]

They are all over Europe:
Some found in North America as far back as 1894: check out the link

http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v01...0064-p0065.pdf

It could be a farm bird gone wild...you see some strange things out there...
Here's one I found a few years back..this has a bit of everything in it...duck and goose..

[Myer Bornstein]

It definitely looks like an Egyptian gooseI am not sure that the bird would be migrating up from Florida, where it is taking hold, so this must be a flock that either escaped or someone released into the wild. Escaping or releasing, neither is good, but at least a bird that escapes was not set free by a person