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The Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae [2]), sometimes also known as the pig goose, is a species of goose endemic to southern Australia. It is a distinctive large, grey bird that is mostly terrestrial and is not closely related to other extant members of the subfamily Anserinae. [3] [4] [5]
The Recherche Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae grisea), also known as the Cape Barren goose (southwestern), is large grazing bird found along the southern coast of Western Australia. It is a subspecies of the Cape Barren goose, the other subspecies of which inhabits islands and coastal regions of Bass Strait in south-eastern ...
†Cnemiornis calcitrans Owen 1866 (South Island Goose) †Cnemiornis septentrionalis Oliver 1955 (North Island Goose) Genus Cereopsis Latham 1801. Cereopsis novaehollandiae Latham 1801 (Cape Barren goose) LC. C. n. novaehollandiae Latham 1801 (eastern/New Holland Cape Barren goose) C. n. grisea (Vieillot 1818) (Recherche/southwestern Cape ...
The coscoroba swan is a medium-large sized waterfowl, but smaller than the true swans, at 90 to 115 cm (35 to 45 in) long with a wingspan of about 155 cm (61 in).). Males weigh 3.8 to 5.4 kg (8.4 to 12 lb) and females 3.1 to 4.5 kg (6.8 to 9.
Two genera of geese are only tentatively placed in the Anserinae; they may belong to the shelducks or form a subfamily on their own: Cereopsis, the Cape Barren goose, and Cnemiornis, the prehistoric New Zealand goose. Either these or, more probably, the goose-like coscoroba swan is the closest living relative of the true geese.
Geese in the genus Cereopsis or wax like. ... Cape Barren goose This page was last edited on 16 June 2019, at 00:12 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Various breeding programs have repopulated Cape Barren goose to a level where they are now considered stable, however their overall population remains one of the rarest geese. [15] Serendip Sanctuary provides an ideal habitat for captive breeding, replicating the Cape Barren goose natural habitat in areas of pasture, tussock grass and low scrub ...
Magpie goose (Anseranatidae), a monotypic family with a portion of the population living on New Guinea; Australian treecreepers (Climacteridae), seven species, six endemic to Australia and one, the Papuan treecreeper, endemic to New Guinea. Bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae), twenty species, ten found in Australia, eight in New Guinea, and two in both.