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Most of the birds that winter here come from Scandinavia but what type of geese are they?
British Birds - Geese
The term 'goose' applies to the female in particular while 'gander' applies to the male in particular. Young birds before fledging are called goslings. A group of geese on the ground is called a gaggle; when geese fly in formation, they are called a wedge or a skein.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Adrian Pingstone
Snow Goose
Brent Goose
Bean Goose
Pink-footed Goose
- Group: Ducks, Geese and Swans
- Binomial: Anser fabalis
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Status: Winter Visitor
- Most of the birds that winter here come from Scandinavia.
- The best place in Britain to see them is the Yare Valley in Norfolk, which includes the RSPB's Mid-Yare nature reserves.
2.
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Andrey
Egyptian Goose
Barnacle Goose
Bean Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose
- Group: Ducks, Geese and Swans
- Binomial: Branta leucopsis
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Status: Winter Visitor
- A medium-sized, sociable goose.
- It flies in packs and long lines, with a noisy chorus of yapping sounds.
- The natural history of this goose was long surrounded with a legend claiming that they were born of driftwood.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of http://www.naturespicsonline.com/
Egyptian Goose
Snow Goose
Greater Canada Goose
Pink-footed Goose
- Group: Ducks, Geese and Swans
- Binomial: Branta canadensis
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Status: Resident Introduced Population, Some Wild Vagrants
- It forms noisy flocks.
- Adult geese are often seen leading their goslings in a line, usually with one parent at the front and the other at the back.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of http://photo-natur.de/
Greylag Goose
Pink-footed Goose
Egyptian Goose
Brent Goose
- Group: Ducks, Geese and Swans
- Binomial: Branta bernicla
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Status: Winter Visitor
- In the breeding season, it uses low-lying wet coastal tundra for both breeding and feeding.
- The nest is bowl-shaped, lined with grass and down, in an elevated location, often in a small pond.
5.
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Walter Siegmund
Snow Goose
Bean Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose
Brent Goose
- Group: Ducks, Geese and Swans
- Binomial: Anser caerulescens
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Status: Resident Introduced Population, Some Wild Vagrants
- When choosing a mate, young birds will most often select a mate that resembles their parents' colouring.
- If the birds were hatched into a mixed pair, they will mate with either colour.
6.
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Diliff
Brent Goose
Greylag Goose
Red-breasted Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose
- Group: Ducks, Geese and Swans
- Binomial: Anser anser
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Status: Resident Wild And Feral Populations, Winter Visitor
- The ancestor of most domestic geese, this is the largest and bulkiest of the wild geese native to the UK and Europe.
- Sometimes seen in suburban parks with lakes.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Jerry Segraves
Greater Canada Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose
Barnacle Goose
Red-breasted Goose
- Group: Ducks, Geese and Swans
- Binomial: Anser albifrons
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Status: Winter Visitor
- Weather conditions are a key factor in the breeding success of these geese.
- In the Arctic, the window of opportunity for nesting, incubating eggs and raising a brood to flight state is open briefly, for about three months.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Adrian Pingstone
Greylag Goose
Red-breasted Goose
Pink-footed Goose
Brent Goose
- Group: Ducks, Geese and Swans
- Binomial: Branta ruficollis
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Status: Rare Vagrant
- Breeds in Arctic Europe, often close to nests of large birds of prey.
- This helps to protect this small goose from predators such as the Arctic Fox.
- While wintering, the red-breasted goose feeds on grasses, leafs and seeds.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of http://photo-natur.de/
Barnacle Goose
Egyptian Goose
Bean Goose
Pink-footed Goose
- Group: Ducks, Geese and Swans
- Binomial: Alopochen aegyptiaca
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Status: Resident Introduced Population
- It was introduced as an ornamental wildfowl species and has escaped into the wild, now successfully breeding in a feral state.
- It is found mainly in East Anglia, in parkland with lakes.
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What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of MPF
Egyptian Goose
Bean Goose
Barnacle Goose
Pink-footed Goose
- Group: Ducks, Geese and Swans
- Binomial: Anser brachyrhynchus
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Status: Winter Visitor
- Large numbers of birds spend the winter here, arriving from their breeding grounds in Spitsbergen and Iceland.
- Nesting is often on cliffs close to glaciers to provide protection from mammalian predators.
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