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  2. Cape Barren goose - Wikipedia

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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. Cereopsis novaehollandiae grisea - Wikipedia

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    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 Australia.

  4. Serendip Sanctuary - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Waldegrave Islands Conservation Park - Wikipedia

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    The land under protection was first declared in 1967 as fauna conservation reserve under the Crown Lands Act 1929-1966, and was re-proclaimed in 1972 under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 to 'conserve Cape Barren geese (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) breeding habitat and Australian sea lion haul-out areas'.

  6. Sir Joseph Banks Group - Wikipedia

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    During a 1941 demonstration of the two-way radio system which allowed conversations between Reevesby Island and the mainland for the first time, resident Mrs R. Adams described hundreds of Cape Barren geese nesting on the island, swimming with a seal and said that there was a large penguin burrow under a windmill. She also recounted an occasion ...

  7. Churchill Island - Wikipedia

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    The Churchill Island Marine National Park adjoins the island's western shore, and Western Port bay, in which the island is located, is listed under the Ramsar Convention. Cape Barren geese can be frequently observed on the island.

  8. Cape Barren geese - Wikipedia

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  9. List of Anseriformes - Wikipedia

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    †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 ...