Spur-winged Goose
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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Spur-winged Goose | status = Conservation status: Lower risk (lc) | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Anseriformes | familia = Anatidae | subfamilia = Plectropterinae | genus = Plectropterus | genus_authority = Stephens, 1824 | species = P. gambensis | binomial = Plectropterus gambensis | binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1766) | subdivision_ranks = Subspecies | subdivision =
- P. g. gambensis (Common Spur-winged Goose)
- P. g. niger (South African Spur-winged Goose)
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The Spur-winged Goose, (Plectropterus gambensis), is a large African bird in the family Anatidae, related to the geese and the shelducks, but distinct from both of these in a number of anatomical features, and therefore treated in its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae. It occurs in wetlands throughout sub-Saharan Africa.