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Domestic or Ganky Geese

10,000 Birds

Like manky mallards, ganky geese display remarkable variety due to both the methodical manipulations of breeders and the variable volatility of the more natural kind of breeding. Feral geese run the gamut from pure white to almost entirely gray or brown. We certainly see enough of them, don’t we?

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Fancy Pigeon Blues

10,000 Birds

Do much birding in the city, and your thoughts will turn again and again to feral pigeons. I haven’t measured this particular specimen myself, but some breeders of short-beaked pigeons are known to take things to extremes that prevent the birds from feeding their own young. The weird little crest is decidedly un-aerodynamic.

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