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The pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and recently Novaya Zemlya. It is migratory, wintering in northwest Europe, especially Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and western Denmark. The name is often abbreviated in colloquial usage to "pinkfoot" (plural "pinkfeet").
In the 1920s in Britain, the pink-footed goose "discovered" that potatoes were edible and started feeding on waste potatoes. The greylag followed suit in the 1940s and now regularly searches for tubers on ploughed fields. [20] They also consume small fish, amphibians, crustaceans, molluscs and insects. [26]
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. Forty-six species have been recorded in Connecticut.
For species found in the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the list are those of the AOS, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North and Middle American birds.
Greylag goose: Anser anser (Linnaeus, 1758) 21 Swan goose: Anser cygnoides (Linnaeus, 1758) 22 Taiga bean goose: Anser fabalis (Latham, 1787) 23 Pink-footed goose: Anser brachyrhynchus Baillon, 1834: 24 Tundra bean goose: Anser serrirostris Gould, 1852: 25 Greater white-fronted goose: Anser albifrons (Scopoli, 1769) 26 Lesser white-fronted goose
Snow goose, Anser caerulescens (A) Ross's goose, Anser rossii (A) Graylag goose, Anser anser; Greater white-fronted goose, Anser albifrons; Taiga bean-goose, Anser fabalis (A) Tundra bean-goose, Anser serrirostris (A) Pink-footed goose, Anser brachyrhynchus; Brant, Branta bernicla; Barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis; Cackling goose, Branta ...
As many as 50,000 pink-footed geese, 13,000 Eurasian wigeon and 7,000 Brent geese winter at Holkham, making it of international importance for these species. [5] Up to 400 white-fronted geese and a few tundra bean geese may join the wildfowl flocks, and the odd peregrine falcon , short-eared owl , merlin , marsh harrier or hen harrier may hunt ...
The taxonomic treatment [3] (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the accompanying bird lists adheres to the conventions of the AOS's (2019) Check-list of North American Birds, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North America birds.