Red-breasted Goose

Branta ruficollis

Vagrant, the true status of which is blurred by frequent escapes from captivity.

BOU Name	Red-breasted Goose
Data Required	Description.
Status	BBRC (7, 3, 10) BBRC (7, 3, 10) Species with a status of BBRC (British Birds Rarities Committee) are nationally rare and require full descriptions. The three figures after BBRC or ESIP follow the rules defined by Wood(1996): The first figure denotes the total number of records in Essex up to and including those detailed in the Guide (Cox 1984) plus any historic records that have since been accepted by BBRC/BOURC/EBSIP e.g. 1826 American Bittern, 1868 White-tailed Eagle The second figure denotes the total number of records from the period 1981/82 to present. The third figure denotes the total number of Essex records.
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Red-breasted Goose at Abberton Reservoir on 11 Jul 2012 (© Sean Nixon, Canon)

Most Recent Records recorded via website

Name	Date	SiteName	Observer	Num	Notes
Red-breasted Goose	09 Jul 2016	Naze, The	Martin Richards	1	with a few Barnacles
Red-breasted Goose	14 May 2016	Naze, The	Brian Combes	1	first for a while; with 4 barnacles on Walton Hall Marshes then flew to Horsey Island
Red-breasted Goose	04 Feb 2016	Deal Hall, Dengie	David Low	1	Called consistently,throughout day:very vocal at times, I believe this bird is male. I owned a pair of RBG's in a my Wildfowl collection for 3 years & the male would very typically call like this bird
Red-breasted Goose	13 Jan 2016	Deal Hall, Dengie	David Low	1	Considered to have been an adult, heard firstly coming in with 50 Brent over head before landing & photographed sent to County Recorder, highly mobile & scared off by military firing on close by Foulness Island not seen after 14:30 Record photo on my Twitter feed
Red-breasted Goose	12 Sep 2015	Abberton Reservoir	Steve Collins	2	in Hide Bay, feeding on south side
Red-breasted Goose	10 Sep 2015	Abberton Reservoir	Peter Triston	2	From Hide bay hide
Red-breasted Goose	08 Sep 2015	Abberton Reservoir	David Hale	2	Island hide.
Red-breasted Goose	31 Jul 2015	Abberton Reservoir	Antony Braun	2	LBC
Red-breasted Goose	06 Jul 2015	Abberton Reservoir	Karl Kennedy	2	lbc still showing
Red-breasted Goose	06 Jul 2015	Abberton Reservoir	Mark Gregory	2	along with swan goose and mallard-red-crested pochard Layer Breton Causeway