On 4 December 2004 Granstrand found and photographed Washington’s first fully documented Giant Canada Goose (Branta canadensis maxima) of apparently wild origin near Yakima, Yakima County (Figure 1). On 15 January 2005 he found another at Ice Harbor Dam, Walla Walla County (Mlodinow et al. 2005). Figure 1 shows that the bird at Yakima had white extending back from the top of the cheek patch as well as a white bar across the forehead. Both marks typify maxima, though occasionally other subspecies of the Canada Goose display them, as do some intergrades (Hanson 1997). Additionally, maxima is typically somewhat whiter breasted than B. c. moffitti (Hanson 1997), the common large Canada Goose of Washington and surrounding states and provinces (Johnsgard 1975, Bellrose 1976), and this is evident in Figure 1. Also detectable in the photograph is that the white cheek strap meets the base of the bill. This mark is often present in maxima and is atypical of other taxa (B. Jones in litt). Granstrand also noted this bird’s wing being larger than the nearby examples of moffitti and its proportionally longer neck (not readily evident in the photograph because of the bird’s posture), both features suggesting maxima (Hanson 1997).