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The bird is pale grey and is easily distinguished from any of the other grey geese of the genus Anser by the black bars on its head. It is also much paler than the other geese in this genus. In flight, its call is a typical goose honking. A mid-sized goose, it measures 71–76 cm (28–30 in) in total length and weighs 1.87–3.2 kg (4.1–7.1 lb).
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.
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
†Anser eldaricus Burchak-Abramovich & Gadzyev 1978 †Anser pratensis (Short 1970) †Anser tchikoicus Kuročkin 1985 †Anser thompsoni Martin & Mengel 1980 †Anser thraceiensis Burchak-Abramovich & Nikolov 1984 †Anser udabnensis Burchak-Abramovich 1957; Subgenus Reichenbach 1852. Anser indicus (Latham 1790) (bar-headed goose) LC
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.
Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.
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The swan goose is large and long-necked for its genus, wild birds being 81–94 cm (32–37 in) long (the longest Anser goose) and weighing 2.8–3.5 kg (6.2–7.7 lb) or more (the second-heaviest Anser, after the greylag goose A. anser). The sexes are similar, although the male is larger, with a proportionally longer bill and neck; in fact the ...