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Anser fabalis (Bean Goose)


English: Bean Goose
Russian: Гуменник
German: Saatgans
French: Oie des moissons
Mongolian: Буурал галуу
Japanese: ヒシクイ(Hishikui)

Body length: 69-88 cm
Wing span: 140-174 cm

Passage migrant
Migration: Apr.-May; Aug.-Sep.

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least Concern

Habitat: Breeds on bogs, marshes and pools in remote taiga, both wintering in W and C Europe. Migrants passing S Fenno-Scandia 2nd half Apr and Sep/Oct. Huge roosting and wintering flocks at favoured places in S Sweden and N Continental Europe; scarce in Britain, Shy and wary.   

Identification: Medium large, rather dark tertials and upper-wing-coverts.  Head and neck rather dark. Differs from Greylag and Pink-footed in orange (or dull red) legs, not pink; also, in flight upperwing rather dark, not strikingly pale, and underwing all dark. Sometimes difficult to separate from Pink-footed, especially at a distance, when orange of bill and legs often looks indeterminably dull red; back just as dark as flank area (paler on Pink-footed) helpful, as is narrower white terminal tail-band of Bean. Many have narrow white rim at base of bill; those with most can resemble White-fronted Goose.

Ecologically differentiated subspecies fabalis and rossicus differ slightly but distinctly. Ssp. fabalis about as large as Greylag but has narrower neck, smaller head, slimmer bill and body; bill is usually long, and base not too deep; amount of orange (or dull red) variable, some with dark restricted to base of lower mandible, tip and a little on culmen, others with a lot of dark at base of bill resembling rossicus and Pink-footed. Ssp. rossicus is slightly smaller, has shorter neck, darker head and neck which contrast more markedly with paler body than in fabalis, all characters which make it more similar to Pink-footed; bill is short, deep-based and triangular, and pale (reddish) patch almost invariably small, and base of lower mandible is deeper and more curved. In large flocks of N Europe some birds appear to be intermediates.

Food: Short plants and wheat grains

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