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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 ...
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Genus Cereopsis - Cape Barren goose (Anserinae, Tadorninae, or own subfamily?) Genus Chenonetta - maned duck (dabbling ducks or Tadorninae? Includes Euryanas.)
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.
This goose was as large as some small moa. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The North Island species had 15 kg (33 lb) in body mass while the South Island species reached 18 kg (40 lb), far surpassing Canada and Cape barren geese . [ 6 ]
Cape Barren goose; Cape batis; Cape bulbul; Cape bunting; Cape canary; Cape clapper lark; Cape cormorant; Cape crow; Cape eagle-owl; Cape gannet; Cape grassbird; Cape long-billed lark; Cape longclaw; Cape May warbler; Cape parrot; Cape penduline tit; Cape robin-chat; Cape rock thrush; Cape rockjumper; Cape shoveler; Cape siskin; Cape sparrow ...