canada subspecies...

[steinea286]

Got on a decent hunt Wednesday morning (9/16) and did pretty well acctually shot some richardons geese which arent very common in this region.





Let me know what you guys think of the differences. Kind of neat. My buddy wants me to mount one for him since hes new at waterfowl so im going to have a go at it. Here are the final pictures of the hunt.

[trappintommer]

Looks like a good hunt! I think there are something like 8 different subspecies of geese. I would say the smaller one is a lesser and the bigger one is a a greater. They are both prety common and most people don't notice the difference unless you put the two together.

[davie6]

nice shoot. last year my friend shot a lesser that was about size of a mallard and a half. it was TINY.

that farmer left you a lot of ground cover to hide the blinds!

[steinea286]

I was reading earlier that there are 2 species of canada geese; the Greater Canadas (which have 7 subspecies) and the Cackling geese (which have 4 sub species). So the the richardsons are a cackling goose which is a subspecies. Not many are harvested but they still count towards a limit (not specified in DEC regulations). The lesser goose is even smaller than a richardsons. They are slightly larger than a mallard (canvasback size). Pretty interesting stuff...