I photographed this goose amongst the swans and Greylag (farmyard type) geeese on Exetr Quay last month. I have been trying to identify it and eventually I have discovered that it is a Swan Goose (Anser cygnoides) In the wild this is a rare goose but there are a few feral birds living wild in the UK and this is one of them. It is an extremely attractive goose. You can see that, in common with the White-fronted Goose it has the same facial markings and it's obvious that they are closely related. It is living wild and free. As my gallery of Devon Birds exists to help people to name the birds that they see in Devon, I have included it.
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