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Anser indicus (Bar-headed Goose)

English: Bar-headed Goose
Russian: Горный гусь
German: Streifengans

French: Oie a tete barree
Mongolian: Хээрийн галуу
Japanese:  インドガン (Indo-gan)

Body length:  71-71 cm
Wing span: 140-160 cm

Breeding visitor
Breeding season: May-August

Egg number:  4-6 (occasionally 2-8)
Egg color: Creamy-white
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least Concern

Food: Short green plants, roots and buds in wet meadow.

Habitat: Central Asian high-altitude species, but escaped feral birds may appear in Europe. It nests in trees cliffs, rocks, and slopes with rock near rivers, ponds and lakes. Breeding pairs build their nest in the old stick nests of steppe raptors (Upland Buzzard, Saker Falcon, and Black Kite) placed in trees. They ass nest material to the nest and line it with down. Their nest is usually a shallow hollow on raised ground or ledges, or a twig-tree-nest thickly lined with down.

Identification: The size of Bean Goose and very pale grey (in flight largely whitish-looking). At close range shows distinctive white head with too black cross-bars. Hind neck dark grey. Outer parts of flight-feathers dark. Bill and legs yellow, bill comparatively small.


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