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A photo of a Swan Goose (Anser cygnoides)
Swan Goose

Swan Goose

Anser cygnoides

The swan goose (Anser cygnoides) is a large goose with a natural breeding range in inland Mongolia, northernmost China, and the Russian Far East. It is migratory and winters mainly in central and eastern China. Vagrant birds are encountered in Japan and Korea (where it used to winter in numbers when it was more common), and more rarely in Kazakhstan, Laos, coastal Siberia, Taiwan, Thailand and Uzbekistan. While uncommon in the wild, this species has been domesticated. Introduced and feral populations of its domestic breeds occur in many places outside its natural range. The wild form is also kept in collections, and escapes are not unusual amongst feral flocks of other Anser and Branta geese. The swan goose was uplisted from Near Threatened to Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List in 1992 and further to Endangered in 2000, as its population is declining due to habitat loss and excessive hunting and (particularly on the Sanjiang Plain in China) egg collecting. But new research has shown it to be not as rare as it was believed, and consequently, it was downlisted to Vulnerable status again in 2008.
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Cas Van De Giessen
Sunday 28 May 2023 - 8:23am
Netherlands
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Cas Van De Giessen
Sunday 21 May 2023 - 11:34am
Netherlands
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Cas Van De Giessen
Friday 19 May 2023 - 3:54pm
Netherlands
A photo of a Swan Goose photographed in Bergboezem Zuidpolder Netherlands
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Cas Van De Giessen
Sunday 14 May 2023 - 3:03pm
Netherlands
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