English: Swan Goose
Russian: Сухонос
German: Schwanengans
French: Oie cygnoide
Mongolian: Хошуу галуу
Japanese: サカツラガン (Sakatsura-gan)

Body length:  81-94 cm
Wing span: 165-185 cm

Passage migrant
Breeding season: May-August

Egg number: 5-8
Egg colour: Creamy white with darker markings.
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Vulnerable
Regional status:  Near Threatened

Habitat: It occurs in dense reed beds, and on dry ground in tall grasses and small bushes near lakes and rivers, lakes ponds and pools. During moulting this species prefers to stay in flocks on the surface of open deep water near islands.

Food: Leaves and stems of the water plant Potamogeton pectinatus.