Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The greylag goose was one of the first animals to be domesticated; this happened at least 3,000 years ago in Ancient Egypt, the domestic subspecies being known as A. a. domesticus. [7] As the domestic goose is a subspecies of the greylag goose they are able to interbreed, with the offspring sharing characteristics of both wild and domestic ...
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").
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
A greylag-like domestic goose This list contains breeds and landraces of domestic geese as well as species with semi-domestic populations. Geese are bred mainly for their meat , which is particularly popular in Germanic languages countries around Christmas .
Anser is a waterfowl genus that includes the grey geese and the white geese.It belongs to the true goose and swan subfamily of Anserinae under the family of Anatidae. [2] The genus has a Holarctic distribution, with at least one species breeding in any open, wet habitats in the subarctic and cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in summer.
Anser brachyrhynchus Baillon 1834 (pink-footed goose) LC; Anser middendorffii Severtsov 1873 (East Siberian taiga bean goose) Anser serrirostris Gould 1852 (Tundra bean Goose) A. s. rossicus Buturlin 1933 (Russian tundra bean goose ) A. s. serrirostris Gould 1852 (East Siberian tundra bean goose)
The closely related pink-footed goose (A. brachyrhynchus) has the bill short, bright pink in the middle, and the feet also pink, the upper wing-coverts being nearly of the same bluish-grey as in the greylag goose.
Greylag goose; L. Lesser white-fronted goose ... Pink-footed goose; R. Ross's goose; S. ... Taiga bean goose; Tundra bean goose This page was last edited on 19 ...