We can identify this goose as a Greater White-fronted Goose (it is at or near the center, among Canada Geese and Mallards), which is a rare vagrant to the Greater Toronto Area, as follows:
- Brown head and neck with a bright white forehead
- Orange-Pink bill with cream tip
- Gray upperparts
- Orange legs
- Black tail with a white band at its tip
- White rump
- Light gray breast and chest
- Whitish belly with black splotches. This gives it the nickname of "specklebelly".
- You can differentiate this Greater White-fronted Goose from a Lesser White-fronted Goose by the fact it doesn't have the yellow eyering of the Lesser.
The Greater White-fronted Goose is a new species to our Photographic Life List. Our ebird Life List now stands at 1,081.
