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Blue-winged goose

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This is a stocky grey-brown bird about 70 centimetres (28 in) long with a slightly paler head and upper neck. It has a small black bill and black legs. A chunky mid-sized goose. Standing bird looks fairly dull, gray and dirty white, sometimes showing blue along the edge of the wing. In flight,
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It feeds by grazing, and is apparently largely nocturnal, loafing during the day. It can swim and fly well, but this terrestrial bird is reluctant to do either, and is quite approachable. It forms flocks outside the breeding season.
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this species shows a pale blue forewing. Sexes are similar, but immature birds are duller. The plumage of these birds is thick and loose, furlike as an adaptation to the cold of the Ethiopian highlands.
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It breeds by mountain lakes and streams. This little-known species is believed to build a lined nest amongst grass tussocks, and to lay 6–7
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indicator of evolutionary relationships in waterfowl, is similar in these two species, and very different from any other waterfowl.
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The blue-winged goose is a quiet species, but both sexes may give a soft whistle; it does not honk or cackle like the true geese.
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The relations of this species among the waterfowl is unresolved. It is morphologically close to
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indicates that it might belong to a very distinct and ancient "duck"
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Index


Conservation status
Near Threatened
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Anseriformes
Anatidae
Cyanochen
Bonaparte
Binomial name
Rüppell
Synonyms
waterfowl
endemic
Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Baltimore Zoo

shelducks
sheldgeese
mitochondrial DNA
sequence
cytochrome b

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