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Specklebelly

Anser albifrons

The greater white-fronted goose, "speck" to everyone who hunts them. The best-eating, best-talking goose on the menu, taken over small spreads with a two-note yodel.

Group

Geese

Tribe

Anser

Weight

5.3 lb

Flock

Small yodeling bunches

Migration & Season · Peak Nov–Jan

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Specklebelly

Weather Triggers

Cold Front

Early-fall push to rice country, then settled all winter

Wind

Small bunches finish honestly into it

Temp / Ice

Weather-proof once on the wintering grounds

Habitat

Rice fields, moist-soil, coastal prairie

The Daily Clock

How to hunt it, hour by hour

Water Roost

Night

Shallow rice reservoirs and marsh, in family bunches.

Run It

Trade scouting with the mallard guys

Specks tell you where they'll be. Listen

Morning Feed

First 3 hours

Small bunches yodel into rice stubble, decoying in twos and fives.

Run It

A dozen full-bodies is plenty

Master the two-note yodel

Midday Loaf

Midday

Loafs on levees and sheet water near the feed.

Run It

Leave them settled

Note the loaf for tomorrow's set

Afternoon Feed

Last 2 hours

Short second feed close to the roost.

Run It

Tight to the loaf water

First bunch decides the hunt

Cross-Reference

Where this bird flies

Pacific Flyway

Sac Valley rice, the specklebelly stronghold

Mississippi Flyway

Louisiana rice, winter home

Central Flyway

TX–OK rice and peanuts

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