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The Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) is an African member of the Anatidae family including ducks, geese, and swans. Because of their popularity chiefly as an ornamental bird , the species has also been introduced to Europe, the United States and elsewhere outside their natural range.
Alopochen is a genus of the bird family Anatidae, part of the subfamily Tadorninae along with the shelducks.It contains one extant species, the Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca), and three or four species which became extinct in the last 1,000 years or so.
The Whitefronted Goose is never found as a cultic symbol or holy bird of Geb. The mythological creator 'goose' referred to above, was called Ngg wr "Great Honker" and always depicted as a Nile Goose/Fox Goose or Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) who ornithologically belongs to a separate genus and whose usual Egyptian name was smn, Coptic ...
Eurasian hoopoe, Upupa epops Linnaeus, 1758; Ancient Egyptian: hieroglyph of the bird almost always used as or in the word db "sundried brick" (literal meaning: "one that blocks up"); therefore one of the ancient names must have been Db(3)w/Db(3).t "the one who blocks up (its nest hole)"; a later name would be q(w)q(w)p.t > Coptic koukoupat ...
The ducks, geese, and swans are small- to large-sized birds with a broad and elongated general body plan. [2] Diving species vary from this in being rounder. Extant species range in size from the cotton pygmy goose , at as little as 26.5 cm (10.5 in) and 164 g (5.8 oz), to the trumpeter swan , at as much as 183 cm (6 ft) and 17.2 kg (38 lb).
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When the Spartan king Agesilaus visited Egypt in 361 BC, he noted Egyptian farmers fattened geese and calves. [6] [10] It was not until the Roman period; however, that foie gras is mentioned as a distinct food, which the Romans named iecur ficatum; [11] [12] [13] iecur means liver: [14] and ficatum derives from ficus, meaning fig in Latin. [15]
It may originally derive from Celtic roots meaning "pied waterfowl", essentially the same as the English "shelduck". [7] A group of them is called a "dopping," taken from the Harley Manuscript. [8] The namesake genus of the Tadorninae, Tadorna is very close to the Egyptian goose and its extinct relatives from the Madagascar region, Alopochen.