snow/blue/ross question

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snow/blue/ross question

Postby Goldfish » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:03 pm

I've never been snow goose hunting. Up in Canada was the first time I've ever even really seen them (never got a shot at one). 3leg posted this:
3legged_lab wrote:Turns out the damn rookie shot an eagle head Ross with a band. I read somewhere that that bird, not counting the band, is statistically the rarest waterfowl you can legally take in the United States. Don't know if that's true, but it sounds good.


What is the difference about an eagle head bird? I didn't think it was that rare to see blues with a white head if that is what he's talking about. What is the overall difference in the birds?

(obviously, snows are white and blues are gray, I got that much, lol)
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby Bootlipkiller » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:59 pm

Eagle head is just a nick name for blues. A blue phase snow is not uncommon in some flyways but they are uncommon on the west coast. From what I hear a blue phase Ross is uncommon everywhere.
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby obxbufflehead » Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:19 pm

Bootlipkiller wrote:Eagle head is just a nick name for blues. A blue phase snow is not uncommon in some flyways but they are uncommon on the west coast. From what I hear a blue phase Ross is uncommon everywhere.

Blues are also uncommon on the east coast too. But in the central flyways, they are everywhere.

Damn I should have gotten that blue I shot in Mississippi mounted.
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby Olly » Sat Oct 27, 2012 2:33 pm

Funny this thread popped up I shot one here in MI this morning. My first and Prolly last one. Hope it taste good :lol:

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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby obxbufflehead » Sat Oct 27, 2012 3:09 pm

Olly wrote:Funny this thread popped up I shot one here in MI this morning. My first and Prolly last one. Hope it taste good :lol:

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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby Olly » Sat Oct 27, 2012 3:14 pm

obxbufflehead wrote:
Olly wrote:Funny this thread popped up I shot one here in MI this morning. My first and Prolly last one. Hope it taste good :lol:

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Blue
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby obxbufflehead » Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:07 pm

Olly wrote:
obxbufflehead wrote:
Olly wrote:Funny this thread popped up I shot one here in MI this morning. My first and Prolly last one. Hope it taste good :lol:

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First what? Snow?


Blue

Oh. They taste fine if you cook them right. Or at least they one I ate in Mississippi did :lol:
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby 3legged_lab » Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:27 pm

Bootlipkiller wrote:Eagle head is just a nick name for blues. A blue phase snow is not uncommon in some flyways but they are uncommon on the west coast. From what I hear a blue phase Ross is uncommon everywhere.

Also, blues dont really have a set pattern for their blue coverage. Maybe its just a local thing, but all blues are "blue", the ones with the real nice coverage on body and up the neck with a solid white head is what we call an "eagle head".

@ goldie, I should clarify that the info I read said that a blue phase ross (not necessarily 'eagle head') is one of the rarest birds. but like I said, dont quote me, it could have been BS.
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby Goldfish » Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:53 am

Gotcha. Just trying to fill the noggin with more info that I read on the internet, so it must be true.
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby cmcnabb » Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:24 pm

I've killed what I like to think is a good bit of Ross geese and I have never killed or seen an eagleheaded Ross. If I ever do kill one, I'll probably mount it.....in a black pot lol
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby J.e.hagen » Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:37 pm

cmcnabb wrote:I've killed what I like to think is a good bit of Ross geese and I have never killed or seen an eagleheaded Ross. If I ever do kill one, I'll probably mount it.....in a black pot lol

What happened last time we had a Ross goose come in
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby goodkarmarising » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:27 pm

Neve have seen a eagle head ross. Have never mounted a snow goose, or any birds, but that might one to put up on the wall.
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby aunt betty » Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:35 pm

This stuff confuses me. I see HUGE flocks of snow geese. Some are mature and some are not.
The mature ones are white with black wingtips. The immature ones are blue and then there is one we call a juvee that's half-way turned from blue to white.

I assume that blue geese are immature snows. I see them mixed all the time.
This might help clear things up...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Goose
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby 3legged_lab » Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:56 pm

:lol::lol::lol:
I hope you're joking AB, never can tell with you.
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby dog walker » Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:42 am

My buddy shot a blue phase Ross last week while we were up in Missouri. I don't have any pics on my phone I'll have to see what he has. I know its on its way to get mounted. It wasn't an eagle head but it was a blue.
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby dog walker » Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:43 am

Here is a pic that was sent to me by a guide I know. They happened to kill this one in his field today.
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby Tomkat » Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:16 am

Some pictures of snow geese

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This is a dark picture but it was an eaglehead I shot in Jan

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Flying carp

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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby 3legged_lab » Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:27 pm

dog walker wrote:Here is a pic that was sent to me by a guide I know. They happened to kill this one in his field today.
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I hope there was no question about sending it to a taxidermist.
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Re: snow/blue/ross question

Postby aunt betty » Wed Feb 27, 2013 3:55 pm

I'm hearing good reports from Arkansas on snow goose hunting. :thumbsup:
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