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Anser fabalis
Taiga (fabalis) and tundra (serrirostris). Lakes, ponds, bogs, sluggish rivers, swamps, wet meadows. A. f. fabalis. From Scandinavia e through
nw,c Russia and c,se Siberia (s of tundra) to Anadyrland and Kamchatka
and s to Altai, Transbaicalia, Mongolia and Amurland.
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Anser brachyrhynchus
Tundra lakes, ponds, sluggish rivers, swamps, wet meadows. E Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, probably Franz Josef Land, and extreme nw Russia on the Kola Peninsula. Vagrant e Canada, possibly ne U.S. Some vagrants may be escapes from captivity. Introduced in Great Britain, but not certainly established. |
Anser albifrons
Tundra lakes, ponds, wet meadows; in migration marshes, flooded fields and brackish coastal areas. A. a. albifrons N Russia and n Siberia
e to Chukotski Pen. and Anadyrland, Novaya Zemlya, Kolguyev and Vaygach
islands; from n,w,sc Alaska s to Bristol Bay and e across n Yukon, n Mackenzie
and s Victoria I. to n Keewatin; w Greenland.
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Anser erythropus
Open tundra, taiga, lakes, ponds, alpine habitats. From n Scandinavia e across n Russia and n Siberia to Anadyrland. A specimen was taken on Attu I. in the Aleutians in May, 1994 |
Anser anser
Reedbeds, marshy swamps, estuaries, lakes. From Iceland, Outer Hebrides, British Isles, Netherlands and Scandinavia e across c Russia incl. Ural Mts. and lower Volga River, and s Siberia n to L. Baikal and Amurland to n China; s locally or formerly to the Balkans, w Turkey, extreme nw Iran, Transcaucasus, Uzbekistan, Turkestan, Altai, se Iraq and Afghanistan. The domesticated goose was derived from the Graylag Goose. |
Anser indicus
Marshes, lake shores, highland moors. Mts. to 4600 m from the Pamir Mts., Kirghiz steppes, Altai Mts. and extreme sw Siberia (Tuva), Mongolia and n China s to ne Afghanistan, n India and w Tibet. Records from Europe are probably escapes from captivity. Introduced in Great Britain, but not certainly established. |
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