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SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🪿Greylag Goose

Anser anser (Linnaeus, 1758)

אווז אפור (שם מדעי: Anser anser) הוא מין אווז ממנו בוית אַוַּז הַבַּיִת.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/19th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Greylag Goose

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
3.3 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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 length
0.14 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.44 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.08 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
31 years
AnAge
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Danger to humans
harmless
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
3.3 Laverage
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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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAnseriformes
  5. ›familyAnatidae
  6. ›genusAnser
  7. ›speciesAnser anser
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  3. subfamilyAnserinae
  4. genusAnser
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderGalloanserae
  11. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  12. familyAnatidae
  13. subfamilyAnserinae
  14. genusAnser
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Closest relative on this site
🦆 Black Swan — last shared an ancestor ≈ 9.5 million years ago.
In other languages
灰雁 (zh), gęś gęgawa (pl), Anser anser (es), nyári lúd (hu), grauwe gans (nl), إوزة ربداء (ar) … and 27 more languages

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