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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.
The hoatzin (/ h oʊ ˈ æ t s ɪ n / hoh-AT-sin) [note 1] or hoactzin (/ h oʊ ˈ æ k t s ɪ n / hoh-AKT-sin) (Opisthocomus hoazin) [4] is a species of tropical bird found in swamps, riparian forests, and mangroves of the Amazon and the Orinoco basins in South America.
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).
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
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.
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.
One of several wild bird species in the family Anatidae: Magpie goose, bird in the closely related family Anseranatidae; Pygmy goose, birds in the genus Nettapus in the subfamily Anatinae; Spur-winged goose, a bird in the subfamily Plectropterinae; Sheldgoose, birds in the subfamily Tadorninae
The Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land know this bird as manimunak. [18] It became an important food item with the formation of wetlands about 1500 ya, and is depicted in rock art from this period. Mimi figures are often shown holding goose-feather fans. [19] In Yolŋu Matha the bird is known as gurrumaṯtji, [20] or around Ramingining as gumang ...