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This is a stocky grey-brown bird about 70 centimetres (28 in) long with a slightly paler head and upper neck. It has a small black bill and black legs. A chunky mid-sized goose. Standing bird looks fairly dull, gray and dirty white, sometimes showing blue along the edge of the wing. [5] In flight, this species shows a pale blue forewing.
Anseriformes (Anser being Latin for "goose") is the taxonomic order to which the ducks, geese, swans, and screamers belong. BirdLife International has assessed 166 species; 89 (54% of total species) have had their population estimated.
Canada goose: Branta canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) 14 Barnacle goose: Branta leucopsis (Bechstein, 1803) 15 Cackling goose: Branta hutchinsii (Richardson, 1832) 16 Bar-headed goose: Anser indicus (Latham, 1790) 17 Emperor goose: Anser canagicus (Sevastianov, 1802) 18 Ross's goose: Anser rossii Cassin, 1861: 19 Snow goose: Anser caerulescens ...
The snow goose (Anser caerulescens) is a species of goose native to North America. Both white and dark morphs exist, the latter often known as blue goose. Its name derives from the typically white plumage. The species was previously placed in the genus Chen, but is now typically included in the "gray goose" genus Anser. [2] [3]
A Canada goose tucking its bill under its wing. Anas: pintails, mallards, etc. (40–50 living species, 3 extinct) Chendytes, diving-geese (extinct c. 450–250 BCE, A basal member of the dabbling duck clade [16]) Spatula, shovelers; Mareca, wigeons and gadwalls; Lophonetta, crested duck; Speculanas, bronze-winged duck; Amazonetta, Brazilian teal
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.
Snow goose, Anser caerulescens (O) Ross's goose, Anser rossii (O) Greater white-fronted goose, Anser albifrons (O) Cackling goose, Branta hutchinsii (O) Canada goose, Branta canadensis; Trumpeter swan, Cygnus buccinator (O) Tundra swan, Cygnus columbianus (O) Wood duck, Aix sponsa (O) Blue-winged teal, Spatula discors (U) Cinnamon teal, Spatula ...
Swan goose; Lesser white-fronted goose; Common pochard; Red-breasted goose; Nene; Long-tailed duck; Blue-winged goose; West Indian whistling duck; Marbled duck; Velvet scoter; Maccoa duck; Steller's eider; Salvadori's teal; Chubut steamer duck