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Common Name
Order
Family
Subfamily
Tribe
- Black Bellied Whistling Duck
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Subfamily: Anserinae
- Tribe: Dendrocygnini
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Common Name
Clutch Size
Eco Importance
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- 12-14 eggs
- lightly hunted
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Black-bellied Whistling Duck
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Common Name
Order
Family
Subfamily
Tribe
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Subfamily: Anserinae
- Tribe: Dendrocygnini
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Common Name
Food Habits
Clutch Size
Eco Importance
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Herbivorous, rice fields and marshes at night, grass and weed seeds, and waste grain
- 12-14 eggs/clutch
- lightly hunted, pest species to some farmers
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Common Name
Food Habits
Clutch Size
Eco Importance
- Tundra Swan
- herbivorous, aquatic veg. mostly
- 4-5 eggs/clutch
- hunted in some US states
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Common Name
Order
Family
Subfamily
Tribe
- Tundra Swan
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Subfamily: Anserinae
- Tribe: Anserini
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Common Name
Order
Family
Subfamily
Tribe
- Trumpeter Swan
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Subfamily: Anserinae
- Tribe: Anserini
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Common Name
Food Habits
Clutch Size
Eco Importance
- Trumpeter Swan
- herbivorous, mostly aquatic veg.
- 4-5 eggs/clutch
- protected
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Common Name
Order
Family
Subfamily
Tribe
- Mute Swan
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Subfamily: Anserinae
- Tribe: Anserini
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Common Name
Food Habits
Clutch Size
Eco Importance
- Mute Swan
- herbivorous, mostly aquatic veg.
- 4-5 eggs/clutch
- protected, considered a pest by some
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Greater White-fronted Goose
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Common Name
Order
Family
Subfamily
Tribe
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Subfamily: Anserinae
- Tribe: Anserini
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Common Name
Food Habits
Clutch Size
Eco Importance
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- herbivorous, grasses, sedges, wheat, rice, barley, waste grains
- 4-5 eggs/clutch
- hunted extensively
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Which is which?
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Adult on top
- Juvenile on bottom
- Juveniles lack barring on chest
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Which is which?
- Snow Goose
- blue colour morph on top
- white colour morph on bottom
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Common Name
Order
Family
Subfamily
Tribe
- Snow Goose
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Subfamily: Anserinae
- Tribe: Anserini
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Common Name
Food Habits
Clutch Size
Eco Importance
- Snow Goose
- herbivorous, grasses, sedges, tubers, wheat, rice, barley, waste grains
- 4-5 eggs/clutch
- hunted, damages sensitive arctic plant species
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Common Name
Food Habits
Clutch Size
Eco Importance
- Ross' Goose
- herbivorous, grasses, sedges, tubers, wheat, rice, barley, waste grains
- 4 eggs/clutch
- hunted
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Common Name
Order
Family
Subfamily
Tribe
- Ross' Goose
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Subfamily: Anserinae
- Tribe: Anserini
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Which is which?
- Brant Geese
- Adult in top image
- Juvenile in bottom image
- Adult has white ring on neck
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Common Name
Order
Family
Subfamily
Tribe
- Brant Goose
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Subfamily: Anserinae
- Tribe: Anserini
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Common Name
Food Habits
Clutch Size
Eco Importance
- Brant Goose
- herbivorous, grasses, sedges, aquatic saltwater plants
- 4-5 eggs/clutch
- hunted
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Common Name
Order
Family
Subfamily
Tribe
- Canada Goose
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Subfamily: Anserinae
- Tribe: Anserini
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Common Name
Food Habits
Clutch Size
Eco Importance
- Canada Goose
- herbivorous, grasses, sedges, aquatic plant seeds, wheat, rice, barley, and especially corn
- 4-5 eggs/clutch
- heavily hunted, 2nd only to mallards, considered pest in some urban areas
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