🪿Greylag Goose
Die Graugans (Anser anser, früher auch Anas anser L.), häufig kurz Gans genannt, ist eine Art der Gattung Feldgänse (Anser) in der Familie der Entenvögel (Anatidae). Graugänse zählen zu den häufigsten Wasservögeln und sind, nach der Kanadagans, die zweitgrößte Gänseart in Europa. Sie sind die wilden Vorfahren der domestizierten Hausgänse. Mitteleuropa gilt als die Region, in der diese Gans domestiziert wurde. Auf die verwandten Schwanengänse (Anser cygnoides) gehen die domestizierten asiatischen Höckergänse zurück. Die Graugans wurde von Carl von Linné 1758 in seinem Werk Systema Naturæ beschrieben.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 3.3 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 31 years
Everything we know about the Greylag Goose
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass3.3 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Male3.69 kgWikidataQ25882
- Female3.24 kgWikidataQ25882
Figures vary
- 3.31 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Tail length0.14 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.44 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan31 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: high
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelHerbivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWetlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Danger to humansharmlessSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l3.3 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Greylag Goose yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderAnseriformes
- ›familyAnatidae
- ›genusAnser
- ›speciesAnser anser
- classBirds · Aves
- orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
- subfamilyAnserinae
- genusAnser
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- superorderGalloanserae
- orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
- familyAnatidae
- subfamilyAnserinae
- genusAnser
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