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The pink feet which give it its name. It is a medium-sized goose, 60–75 cm (24–30 in) long, the wingspan 135–170 cm (53–67 in), and weighing 1.8–3.4 kg (4.0–7.5 lb). It has a short bill, bright pink in the middle with a black base and tip, similar in pattern to tundra bean goose but pink where that species is orange, and pink feet ...
Ross's goose (Anser rossii) A – rare vagrant [5] Snow goose (Anser caerulescens) A & C – some wild vagrants, also a very small feral introduced population Greylag goose (Anser anser) A & C – resident wild and feral populations, winter visitor Taiga bean goose (Anser fabalis) A – winter visitor Pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) The bean goose is a species complex of goose that breeds in northern Europe and Eurosiberia . It has at least two distinct varieties, one inhabiting taiga habitats and one inhabiting tundra .
Besides Bewick's swan and flocks of white-fronted geese, large waterfowl regularly present in the reserve in winter include the brent goose, pink-footed goose, barnacle goose and taiga bean goose. The swans tend to fly off in the day and return to feed in the late afternoon, and another spectacular sight at the end of winter afternoons is the ...
The RSPB reserve has two bird hides, the northernmost - named "Sandgrousers' Hide" - serving as a visitor centre. [4] There are also three viewing screens. [4] The reserve is used by large numbers of overwintering pink footed geese, from Iceland, and wigeon, from Siberia. [5] [6] In summer, species such as avocets [7] and lapwing breed there.
A small flock of Pilgrim Geese - an example of color-sexing goose; males are white, females are gray. The plumage of male and female goose is usually the same. However, there are few auto-sexing goose, which are sexually dimorphic and the sex can be identified by the first look by plumage.
The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons) is a species of goose, closely related to the smaller lesser white-fronted goose (A. erythropus). [2] The greater white-fronted goose is migratory , breeding in northern Canada , Alaska , Greenland and Russia, and winters farther south in North America, Europe and Asia. [ 1 ]
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.