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Snow goose at the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area in Northern California. The snow goose has two color plumage morphs, white (snow) or gray/blue (blue), thus the common description as "snows" and "blues". White-morph birds are white except for black wing tips, but blue-morph geese have bluish-gray plumage replacing the white except on the head, neck ...
Like snow geese, Ross's geese may exhibit a darker "blue" phase or morph, though this is extremely rare (<0.01% of adult birds). [2] Before the early 1900s, this goose was considered a rare species, possibly as a consequence of open hunting, but numbers have increased dramatically as a result of conservation measures. [3]
Trumpeter swan on nest. Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, bills which are flattened to a greater or lesser extent, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to special oils.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Sweden. ... Snow goose (snögås), ... Eurasian blue tit (blåmes), Cyanistes caeruleus;
Although less than half of the following birds' North American populations nest in the boreal forests, a major portion of their species is reliant on this habitat. Many of these birds are more often aquatic and woodland generalist than species more dependent on the taiga. Greater white-fronted goose Anser albifrons; Snow goose Chen caerulescens
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.
Bird flu has been confirmed in a wild goose found near Dungannon, a buzzard near Moira, and a whooper swan in Portballintrae.. The wild goose was the first wild bird to test positive in Northern ...
Blue goose or Blue Goose may refer to: Blue Goose, a presidential lectern of the United States; Snow goose, a North American species of goose; Blue-winged goose, an Ethiopian goose; Blue Goose Records; Honorable Order of the Blue Goose, International, a fraternal and charitable organization