Pitsford Reservoir, Ducks With Hybrid Goose

Ducks waddle and walk slowly because it is hard work rotating from side to side. The hybrid domestic-wild greylag goose looks as though it may be too big to fly.

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• reservoir
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• nature
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• mallard
• brixworth
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[andrewburbidge]

Good news!

Chinese geese were bred from the swan goose of Asia. Could the Chinese domestic goose

interbreed with the greylag-domestic goose? Would offspring all be sterile? Could nuclear transfer produce a viable breeding population? Could such a population interbreed with both the greylag and the swan goose?

[andrewburbidge]

What do you think that big goose is and could it fly? Hybridising can produce very large offspring, I think. Would it have to be a hybrid of domestic and wild greylag geese or could a hybrid occur from domestic and some other species of wild goose? I saw from a search that someone crossed his Chinese geese with Canada geese. Perhaps the offspring would be sterile.