any ideas?

looks like a spec/snow... or a young french goose (Farm goose)

where was it shot?

Please dont say you cut out the breasts and tossed the rest in the trash

You shot it in the snow, right? Must be a snow goose.

Greylag perhaps
That don't look like Houston. Where you in Iceland or something?

American Buff Goose that escaped from somebody's goose farm.

shot in salina kansas and it was flying with canadians

Ok, with that bit of information I got it. It is a Leucistic Canada Goose.

I chased a Leucistic Mallard all over the place below the Dam on Ray Bob the first year it opened for hunting. I never did get that bird.

Canada = no grin patch
this is supposedly a pic of a Canada.

his birds beak looks more like a buff or snow

X2 I think the beak is too short and stubby to be a canada.

hmmm...wouldn't a leucistic still have black legs?

i think it definitely has snow in it, but crossed with who knows what?

Not necessarily. Being leucistic rather than albino, there is a lot of variation. Similar to a Piebald. As the picture above someone posted, does nt have black legs or bill. I go with Canada for two reasons. It was flying with Canadas and you can see a faint patch on the head. Here is one where you can still see the patch.



The other thought could be that it is a leucistic White Front, but again the outline of a faint patch seems to be there on yours.

Another, but this one has a normal head, but does not have the black feet.

Regardless, it looks like one for the Taxidermist so you can debate it over a glasses of scotch for years to come.

I would strongly lean away from leucistic Canada.

The beak and legs just aren't right.

An albino might even have more pale legs and beak, but not completely orange.

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What are those duckkilla?

buff geese

what are those? looks pretty darn close!

The four in the back are specks, and the one in front is a speck with something wrong!

That would be a leusistic Greater white Fronted Goose.

Note leucistic is not to be confused with albino. It is not the same thing.
We need one of the biologist types to look at the head and beak in your picture. The problem with the beak being all wrong with a canada is that there are like a dozen subspecies of Canadas that fly through Kansas. They can look very different as to the shape of the head/beak. The last hunt we did in Oklahoma the biologist on site said we had three subspecies in our bag limit that day.

I think you have it right on with the speck!

With the "orange" coloration on the bill and feet, either it's a leusistic Speck like the one in S J's pic or there is a farmer in Salina wondering where his gander disappeared too!!!!