Taverner's Cackling Geese Branta hutchinsii taverneri.
Images of wintering birds in Washington State. Courtesy of Steve Mlodinow.
Nisqually, WA, January 2006. Note the close resemblence of this bird to the Amherst goose below.
Amherst, MA. October 17th, 2007.
Nisqually, WA, February 2006.