Pink-footed Goose
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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Pink-footed Goose | status = Conservation status: Lower risk (lc) | image = pink footed goose.JPG | image_width = 200px | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Anseriformes | familia = Anatidae | genus = Anser | species = A. brachyrhynchus | binomial = Anser brachyrhynchus | binomial_authority = Baillon, 1834 }}
The Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose breeding in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. It winters in nortwest Europe, especially Great Britain. Here large flocks graze on farmland, particularly in Norfolk, The Fens, Aberdeenshire, and Lancashire.
The Svalbard-population winters in Belgium, The Nederlands and Denmark.
It is closely related to the Bean Goose (Anser fabalis). The Pink-footed Goose has the bill short, bright pink in the middle, and the feet also pink, which is diagnostic.
The upper wing-coverts are nearly of the same bluish-grey as in the Greylag Goose.
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