Egyptian Geese In Daytona Beach?

There is a pair hanging around Tuscawilla park in Ocala for the last couple of weeks.  I wonder if they were the ones from Daytona?  They are beautiful and seem unafraid.  There is a feedmill across the pond where they hang around and feed with all kinds of ducks.

Hello Lysa

I have 4 in my backyard in Miramar Florida. Thanks to you now I now what they are 

Lysa,

We had a pair of them show up in the lake at our apartment complex in Melbourne last week.  They appear to the spreading across the state!

Coconut Creek, FL...A few months ago, 2 Egyptian Geese were living in the lake in back of my condo.  Now we have 10 and it looks like they are here to stay because my neighbor feeds them.  They are beautiful but very noisy!

I saw one last year in New Braunfels, Texas. It was amazing. I wondered if the bird was already settled down in U.S.  

In miami Fl at Doral golf course,we have about 20 of these egyptian geese, I have been here for 18 yrs. and this yrs. is the sighting

The population of feral Egyptian geese in Florida is growing rapidly.  Two years ago we had a total of six adults and three young on the golf course outside my balcony in Pompano Beach, Fl, just north of Fort Lauderdale.  This spring there were 15 - a pair, a trio, and a pair with eight offspring who must have been born last year because they were nearly full sized.  Last night, there were 23 of the Egyptian Geese on the golf course, and right now (mid-afternoon on July 25, 2009), there are 40 of them!  Some of them may have been born this year; they are too far away for me to see their coloring clearly.  But they are not small, they are nearly full grown but perhaps mostly tan and brown and not yet with the dramatic dark brown, white, and black feathers.  They are not at all afraid of golfers and golf carts, which drive right past them.  They are in the rough, eating away and very sociable.  There is no fighting, no honking, no attacking others.  They walk around slowly, grazing, and intermingle with various groups.  It is an incredible sight.

July 25, 2009

Some were spotted this in the last week on a pond about 40 miles from Yosemite National Park in

Mariposa, California.   Article and pictures can be seen at Sierra Sun Times website www.goldrushcam.com

Dudley and Irma, the pair of Egyptian Geese on our golf course in Pompano Beach,  FL, produced six goslings on January 31, 2010.  On February 1, thery took them out for a walk on the course and the next day for a swim.  At seven weeks they were almost the size of their parents.  On the eighth week birthday, the parents gave them their first flight lesson.  At ten weeks they can easily and gracefully fly all the way across the golf course.  This morning they came up out of the canal to greet me and were very friendly.  I suspect people are feeding them, because they show no fear of humans.  The whole family of eight came up to within three feet of me.  The parents and the largest of the offsring show the black chest marking, but the smaller five goslings do not yet show it.  The youngsters have  become fairly indepedent and no longer stay within a couple of fee of the parents.  They are a beautiful group of eight geese.

There are many Egyptian Geese in South Florida, and there are frequently visiting geese on the golf course.

love your egyptian goose....... i was in homestead florida and there are a pair of thes delights at an apartment complex having fun in the ponds all over the complex which is at least 1 square mile!

nicole ramirez

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We have 25 Egyptian Geese in our backyard every morning.

I too live in  Delray, Florida and the place is called Country Lake this last two weeks I have seem about 30-50 of these guys in your man made lake.VERY noisy and will keep you up at all night

We also have egyptian geese in the canal behind my home. We live in Sunrise, fl. And too, they are very friendly. Like someone's pets. Rose

We have 2 living in my yard for the past few weeks......beautiful....I feel so lucky to have been some of the few in the U.S. have have the privilege of seeing the beautiful creatures.

All I remember thinking is that wow, what is that bird....one I had definitely never had the pleasure of seeing and I was born in Miami, Florida and have lived in South Florida for the past 51 years.  I knew the bird had to be rare, when a neighbor told me she found out they were Egyptian geese.

I can not believe a man in California actually shot one....though he said he did not realize what it was until he shot it.

Common sense should tell a hunter that if you see a bird you have not seen before and do not recognize, chances are they are rare here in the States and common sense should tells these hunters not to go around shooting something they have never seen before.

Thank you God, for letting me see this beautiful creature!  I feel privileged