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Egyptian goose (05659)🦆

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SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Egyptian Goose

Alopochen aegyptiaca (Linnaeus, 1766)

Kazarka egipska, gęsiówka egipska, gęś egipska (Alopochen aegyptiaca) – gatunek dużego ptaka wodnego z rodziny kaczkowatych (Anatidae). Jej naturalny zasięg występowania obejmuje Afrykę Subsaharyjską i Dolinę Nilu. W XVIII wieku introdukowana na Wyspach Brytyjskich kolonizowała stopniowo zachodnią Europę. W Polsce pojawia się regularnie, sporadycznie odbywa tu lęgi.

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≈ 1/33rd of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.87 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
26 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Egyptian Goose

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

Body mass
1.87 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1.9 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.13 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
26 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
29 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 7
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

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

Volume l
1.9 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 Egyptian Goose yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Gęsiówka egipska (pl), יאורית מצרית (he), Ouette d'Égypte (fr), Alopochen aegyptiacus (es), nílusi lúd (hu), Alopochen aegyptiaca (it) … and 25 more languages

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