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The grey goose genus Anser has no other member indigenous to the Indian region, nor any at all to the Ethiopian, Australian, or Neotropical regions.Ludwig Reichenbach placed the bar-headed goose in the monotypic genus Eulabeia in 1852, [2] though John Boyd's taxonomy treats both Eulabeia and the genus Chen as subgenera of Anser.
Anser is a waterfowl genus that includes the grey geese and the white geese.It belongs to the true goose and swan subfamily of Anserinae under the family of Anatidae. [2] The genus has a Holarctic distribution, with at least one species breeding in any open, wet habitats in the subarctic and cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in summer.
Bar-headed goose A flock of bar-headed geese (Anser indicus) at the lake in the sanctuary A pair of black-winged stilts (Himantopus himantopus) in the foreground with bar-headed geese in the background, at the sanctuary. Bar-headed goose, Siberia; Common sandpiper, Siberia; Common teal, Siberia; Coot, central Siberia; Green sandpiper, Siberia
The animal that flies highest most regularly is the bar-headed goose Anser indicus, which migrates directly over the Himalayas between its nesting grounds in Tibet and its winter quarters in India. They are sometimes seen flying well above the peak of Mount Everest at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft). [28] Airborne flying squirrel.
Alectis indicus, the Indian threadfish, a fish species; Amblyglyphidodon indicus, the pale damselfish, a dragonfly species; Anax indicus, a species of dragonfly; Ankistrodon indicus, an extinct species of archosauriform; Anser indicus, the bar-headed goose, a goose species which breeds in Central Asia in colonies of thousands near mountain lakes
Around 1600 bar-headed geese (Anser indicus) have been recorded from this site. According to Wetlands International (2002), 1% threshold of this species is 560. Hence, about 3% of the global population of bar-headed geese are found at this site.
The word "goose" is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, respectively), West Frisian goes, gies and guoske, Dutch: gans, ganzen, ganzerik, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gás and gæslingr, whence English gosling.
Anser indicus: Least concern (A) Graylag goose. Anser anser: Anser anser rubrirostris: Least concern (A) Knob-billed duck. Sarkidiornis melanotos: Least concern (A) Ruddy shelduck. Tadorna ferruginea: Least concern (A) Cotton pygmy-goose. Nettapus coromandelianus: Resident Least concern Garganey. Spatula querquedula: Least concern Northern ...