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046 366 Canada Goose Branta canadensis, Lake Accotink Park, Springfield, Virginia, February 15, 2024 (53532034886)🪿

Photo: Judy Gallagher · CC BY 2.0

SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🪿Canada Goose

Branta canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Kanadagås (Branta canadensis) är en fågel inom släktgruppen gäss med sin ursprungliga utbredning i Nordamerika men som genom introduktion nu har en stor population i Europa och även i Nya Zeeland. Polargåsen behandlades länge som en underart till kanadagåsen men har idag artstatus.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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31
Photos
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Measurements
12
vs you
≈ 1/22nd of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
2.81 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
42 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Canada Goose

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

Body mass
2.81 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

By sex

  • Male3.81 kgWikidataQ26733
  • Female3.31 kgWikidataQ26733

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
42 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
26 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 5
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
Details ↓

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

Habitat
Grassland
AVONET
Details ↓

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

Volume l
2.8 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Canada 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. ›genusBranta
  7. ›speciesBranta canadensis
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  3. subfamilyAnserinae
  4. genusBranta
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. genusBranta
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In other languages
bernikla kanadyjska (pl), kanadagås (sv), Kanadagans (de), oca del Canadà (ca), berneška velká (cs), canadagås (da) … and 26 more languages
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046 366 Canada Goose Branta canadensis, Lake Accotink Park, Springfield, Virginia, February 15, 2024 (53532034886)'Branta canadensis' geograph.org.uk 821333518042026 DSC 2134
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