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Graylag Goose

Anser Anser
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Features:

Latin Name: Anser Anser

Origin: North Europe

Ring Diameter: 20

Height: 90 cm about

Weight: 3.3/4.0 kg

Sexual Maturity: 3° year

Number of Eggs: 4/8

Incubation Period: 28/29 days

Fledging: 55/60 days

Graylag Geese (Anser Anser) are likely to be the only European geese found south of the Arctic region during summer. These primarily gray geese are resident in the southern parts of the range, thus they lag behind other geese that migrate north, bringing about their descriptive name. Among the least wary of geese, the heavy-headed, massive-billed birds are the largest and bulkiest of the ten gray geese. The bright pinkish bills and eye-rings of the slightly larger and overall paler Eastern Graylag Geese distinguish them from the orange-billed Western Graylag Geese. Their loud clanging, sonorous honks recall farmyard geese, but given that the majority of domestic geese descended from Graylags (Anser Anser), this is hardly surprising. Graylag Geese (Anser Anser) walk with a slower, more rolling gait than other geese, they are less efficient runners. They are inclined to swim more readily than many of their relatives. Unlike other geese, Graylags (Anser Anser) are difficult to capture during the flightless molt because they do not bunch up, and refuse to be herded and driven into pens, tending instead to scatter and dive. Highly gregarious outside the breeding season, flocks can number in thousands. Virtually all Graylags Geese (Anser Anser) nest south of the Arctic Circle from Iceland to the Russian east coast in a wide spectrum of boreal and temperate habitats, including mountainous regions; some pairs nest as high as 7,500 feet in Mongolia. The sedentary southern breeders may initiate nesting as early as March. Ganders are so aggressive that rivals are even pursued aerially, but even so, colonies may form with pairs as close as six feet apart. Families frequently join up shortly after hatching, sometimes forming large assemblages, when reallocation of progeny between broods commonly transpires. Goslings survival is normally high, although sea-eagles prey on young in Europe. Flocks may mob predators, and the parents of several families are apt to encircle and protect the offspring of all. Graylag Geese (Anser Anser) nest near water, often in reeds or other waterside vegetation that may be floating.

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Graylag Goose Photos:

Adult female of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in the foreground Breeding pair of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) into the water with goslings Young Greylag Goose (Anser anser)few weeks old in the foreground Adult male of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in flight over the lagoon Beautiful male of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in flight Colony of young Greylag Geese (Anser anser) during grazing Adults of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in autumn meadow Breeding pair of Greylag Goose (Greylag) in water Lovely male of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in the foreground Breeding pair of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in the grass with goslings Young Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in the foreground Adult male of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in the foreground Breeding female of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in water on Allevamento Poggio di Ponte Young specimen of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in the meadow Adults of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in flight Adult female of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in water with offspring Breeding pair of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in flight Lovely family of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) in the spring meadow Young specimen of Greylag Goose (Anser anser) at Allevamento Poggio di Ponte

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