Yes, that sounds right. (Marshall Iliff emailed me as well and he agrees with you.)
Where I live (Santa Barbara County, CA) we don't have groups of feral Greater White-fronted and in the winter we have only a few of them, which is way I did not consider GWf. It turns out, though, that in fall Santa Barbara is fly-over county for them as they are making their way to their wintering ground further south. Thanks again for helping to resolve this ID. Wim On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 5:48 PM David Irons <llsdir...@msn.com> wrote: > These sound like Greater White-fronteds, perhaps some feral Anser geese > that are non-native. They are definitely not Cackling Geese. > > Dave Irons > Beaverton, OR > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 2, 2019, at 6:24 PM, Wim van Dam <wim.van....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Last Saturday night (2019-09-28, at about 1AM) I recorded several flocks > of geese flying over my backyard in Solvang, California (USA). I would > expect these to be Canada Goose, but they don't sound right for that (too > high, no honking). So now I'm wondering if these are in fact Cackling > Goose, which would be interesting given the size of the flock. Here is my > best recording: > > https://www.xeno-canto.org/500506 > > Does anybody have any suggestions what these are, and why? Probably > (hopefully) we have to get to the subspecies level to sort this out. The > original .WAV file is 7MB and I'll be happy to email it to those > interested. > > Thanks > > Wim van Dam > Solvang, CA (USA) > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > Birding.ABA.Org <http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NFC> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > Birding.ABA.Org <http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NFC> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- NFC-L List Info: Welcome and Basics � http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME Rules and Information � http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave � http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archive � http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds � http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L Birding.ABA.Org � http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NFC Please submit your observations to eBird! ��http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
