Pacific Black Geese – 10,000 Birds

Right here in Broome we observe a wide variety of geese and probably the most prolific on the Broome Poo Ponds is often the Plumed Whistling-Duck. One among our favorite geese is the Pink-eared Duck. There are additionally Hardheads, Wandering Whistling-Geese, Gray Teal, Australian Wooden Geese and the occasional inflow of Freckled Geese or an Australian Shoveler. The opposite duck species that we observe usually is the Pacific Black Duck and this duck is likely one of the most versatile geese in Australia and can be found in most places.

Pacific Black Geese lay as much as 16 eggs and generally two clutches are raised in a 12 months. Nonetheless, not all of those ducklings will survive or we’d be invaded with geese! Many fowl species have bred round Broome over latest months and the Pacific Black Geese have been no totally different. Each go to to the flooded Roebuck Plains we encountered a rising inhabitants of all fowl species together with the Pacific Black Geese.

Within the header picture the sunshine has captured the shiny inexperienced feathers within the secondary flight feathers. A few of the bigger households of Pacific Black Geese are already gotten smaller and by the point the younger ducklings appear like the adults their numbers have diminished. The stripe round their eyes makes them fairly a particular duck.

Pacific Black Geese

One of many bigger households of Pacific Black Geese that we now have noticed this 12 months seems to have been in a position to make use of the culvert beneath the freeway as a spot to cover from predators. Usually we might see them swim beneath the freeway and reappear on the opposite aspect. I’m not positive if it was actually what helped them be extra profitable, nevertheless it was an incredible escape route anyway!

Pacific Black Geese swimming beneath the freeway and coming out the opposite aspect!